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But their stupidity persisted. They did things that were so wacky they boggled my mind (like putting a credit card number in with spaces between each

by crasm 10y ago

But their stupidity persisted. They did things that were so wacky they boggled my mind (like putting a credit card number in with spaces between each number)... Not allowing spaces in a credit card field is a pet peeve of mine. It's a trivial problem to solve in code, and almost nobody does it. Whether it's a space every 4 numbers (the most logical to me) or a space between each number, it really shouldn't matter. There are spaces in the number on the card itself. Entering the number with spaces makes it easy to check if you've made a mistake in only a few glances, instead of painstakingly going number-by-number and losing your position a few times. It shouldn't be the user's fault.

taeric 10y ago
Phone numbers and dashes/parens is another peeve. Not because I really care, per se, but it really does make so many sites difficult to use.
- mjevans 10y ago
  There are exactly two correct ways of handling a phone number. * A text input field (which you will store as the user entered) * What will eventually be coerced in to a series of just numbers in a string.
ourmandave 10y ago
I just enter the 16 digits without much trouble. Then I get to the expiration date and the first column is a drop list of Jan, Feb, Mar... wat? Now my brain has to convert 07 to Jul instead of just picking 07. Why?! Are developers trying to make users angry?
- amelius 10y ago
  Then I get to the CVC code. I have to turn the card, there are two numbers, printed such that they look unimportant. Which one should I pick? Banks are making users angry really.
Marazan 10y ago
Of course there is the occasional website that requires the spaces to be inserted. Bonkers.
raverbashing 10y ago
I was going to comment the same thing, and this is a good reminder Never make the user do what code can do, unless you have a good reason for it And no, making them take the spaces manually (or spaces/dashes/parenthesis in a phone number) is not a good reason
chrismcb 10y ago
I just looked up a flight on Delta's site. I entered the flight number, or what most people would consider the flight number. "DL133" Delta darius it was an invalid number. Turns out they just wanted "123" how hard would it have been for them to strip the leading "DL"? Apparently to hard
- jakub_g 10y ago
  They probably have a ticket for it in JIRA, at the bottom of the backlog with other things that make people's life easier, because POs want insert_annoying_features_here instead.

by crasm 10y ago

taeric 10y ago

Phone numbers and dashes/parens is another peeve. Not because I really care, per se, but it really does make so many sites difficult to use.

mjevans 10y ago
There are exactly two correct ways of handling a phone number. * A text input field (which you will store as the user entered) * What will eventually be coerced in to a series of just numbers in a string.

ourmandave 10y ago

I just enter the 16 digits without much trouble. Then I get to the expiration date and the first column is a drop list of Jan, Feb, Mar... wat? Now my brain has to convert 07 to Jul instead of just picking 07. Why?! Are developers trying to make users angry?

amelius 10y ago
Then I get to the CVC code. I have to turn the card, there are two numbers, printed such that they look unimportant. Which one should I pick? Banks are making users angry really.

Marazan 10y ago

Of course there is the occasional website that requires the spaces to be inserted. Bonkers.

raverbashing 10y ago

I was going to comment the same thing, and this is a good reminder Never make the user do what code can do, unless you have a good reason for it And no, making them take the spaces manually (or spaces/dashes/parenthesis in a phone number) is not a good reason

chrismcb 10y ago

I just looked up a flight on Delta's site. I entered the flight number, or what most people would consider the flight number. "DL133" Delta darius it was an invalid number. Turns out they just wanted "123" how hard would it have been for them to strip the leading "DL"? Apparently to hard

jakub_g 10y ago
They probably have a ticket for it in JIRA, at the bottom of the backlog with other things that make people's life easier, because POs want insert_annoying_features_here instead.