Reply to: This annoys me - validation and formatting

[MarillionFan]

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...tml#post937172

Try not to talk such bollocks, it makes you look an even bigger tit than you are.

As I said.

Well done.

FFS

[NickFitz]

Sounds like a piece of Nick Fitz development. This is the exact nature of the piece of data I need, you as a user are an idiot, therefore even though it's easy to
write I am going to put up a smug user message and increment the counter NickKnowsBest by one.

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...tml#post937172

Try not to talk such bollocks, it makes you look an even bigger tit than you are.

[Old Greg]

Another bank I use gets you to put in your DOB and tells you it must be in dd-mm-yyyy format.

And yes, you have to put the dashes in or it rejects your entry! FFS!

I guess they need to check you're not 105.

[xchaotic]

Anyone shooped at scan.com? They ask your first name, last name, post code, mothers maiden name and password to login (existing customer!!!) to place order FFS!

Even worse if you want it shipped outside of UK - then it's all manual - you send them the codes via email/phone and they create an invoice for you.
If you then want to pay via UK Credit Card you have to be physically in the UK otherwise it rejects you, fortunately I know how to use a proxy.

Having said all that I have nothing but praise for them for good prices for components, shipping and excellent customer service.

[Sysman]

Anyone shooped at scan.com? They ask your first name, last name, post code, mothers maiden name and password to login (existing customer!!!) to place order FFS!

I do hope that's an htpps page...

[AtW]

Anyone shooped at scan.com? They ask your first name, last name, post code, mothers maiden name and password to login (existing customer!!!) to place order FFS!

[DimPrawn]

Another bank I use gets you to put in your DOB and tells you it must be in dd-mm-yyyy format.

And yes, you have to put the dashes in or it rejects your entry! FFS!

[xoggoth]

Totally agree, really annoying.

[Old Greg]

The credit card number one is worse. Where the number is rejected if you leave spaces between groups of 4 digits.

PM me your details and I'll see of I can get it to work for you.

[TimberWolf]

Just going to login to one of my online bank accounts.

It says this



How about this, web devs, if the number is not long enough you could left pad the number with zeroes and make the users life a bit easier eh?

Same with postcodes, where it rejects because you've entered spaces between the out code and the in code, or you've entered telephone numbers and put spaces between the area code and the phone number. Devs, you can strip the spaces out, don't make users do this for you.

The credit card number one is worse. Where the number is rejected if you leave spaces between groups of 4 digits.

[doodab]

Sounds like a piece of Nick Fitz development. This is the exact nature of the piece of data I need, you as a user are an idiot, therefore even though it's easy to
write I am going to put up a smug user message and increment the counter NickKnowsBest by one.

Of course the invalid number could occur for a number of reasons i.e. because they skipped or mistyped one of the other digits, in which case you've potentially tried to log them into a different account than the one they intended, which if they retry several times thinking they have the password wrong could result in that other account being randomly locked.

Given that users usually are idiots, it's probably the lesser of two evils to annoy the one who can't get his number right than just annoy one at random.

[MarillionFan]

Just going to login to one of my online bank accounts.

It says this
How about this, web devs, if the number is not long enough you could left pad the number with zeroes and make the users life a bit easier eh?

Same with postcodes, where it rejects because you've entered spaces between the out code and the in code, or you've entered telephone numbers and put spaces between the area code and the phone number. Devs, you can strip the spaces out, don't make users do this for you.

Sounds like a piece of Nick Fitz development. This is the exact nature of the piece of data I need, you as a user are an idiot, therefore even though it's easy to
write I am going to put up a smug user message and increment the counter NickKnowsBest by one.

[doodab]

Was the indigestion bad?

You can cure it by eating chalk.

[Halo Jones]

Rainbow poop

[Old Greg]

I got a set of free crayons when I opened it. Which was nice.

Was the indigestion bad?