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You're telling me the user will press Reset, see the form cleared and the new Restore button immediately appear, and not figure out what it means? And I'd say

You're telling me the user will press Reset, see the form cleared and the new Restore button immediately appear, and not figure out what it means? And I'd say the Restore feature (or you can call it undo) is better than a confirmation. The confirmation is annoying if you really mean to clear the form and ineffective to prevent data loss (how many times have you regretted performing some action right after it's too late?).

vnorby 18y ago
I don't see why you need a reset button at all. I don't think I've ever gone through a form and decided at the very end, after filling everything in, that I needed to just do it all over again with completely new values in every input box. Can you think of an example where you really needed it and wouldn't just refresh the page?
- steelhive 18y ago
  For a consumer-oriented website, I think you're correct. If you're filling out the form as a one-time thing I don't see the reset button's usefulness. Probably a cancel button which takes the user to some previous step would be better. But if this form is part of an enterprise or small-office intranet application, and that's a form you fill out many times a day, perhaps 100s of times, then the form reset button might come in handy.
ars 18y ago
> You're telling me the user will press Reset, see the form cleared and the new Restore button immediately appear, and not figure out what it means? Yes, I am. Sure some users will figure it out, but an upsettingly large percent of people will not. If you're making a site geared toward computer people you'll be OK, but if it's for a general audience, well, stuff that is blindingly obvious to you is incomprehensible to them. I've seen it too many times to take it for granted anymore. And you better not call it reset - because that's quite meaningless to a non web programmer. This stuff is much much harder than it seems.
- kenver 18y ago
  Software Engineering 101 - assume all your users are idiots.

vnorby 18y ago

I don't see why you need a reset button at all. I don't think I've ever gone through a form and decided at the very end, after filling everything in, that I needed to just do it all over again with completely new values in every input box. Can you think of an example where you really needed it and wouldn't just refresh the page?

steelhive 18y ago
For a consumer-oriented website, I think you're correct. If you're filling out the form as a one-time thing I don't see the reset button's usefulness. Probably a cancel button which takes the user to some previous step would be better. But if this form is part of an enterprise or small-office intranet application, and that's a form you fill out many times a day, perhaps 100s of times, then the form reset button might come in handy.

ars 18y ago

> You're telling me the user will press Reset, see the form cleared and the new Restore button immediately appear, and not figure out what it means? Yes, I am. Sure some users will figure it out, but an upsettingly large percent of people will not. If you're making a site geared toward computer people you'll be OK, but if it's for a general audience, well, stuff that is blindingly obvious to you is incomprehensible to them. I've seen it too many times to take it for granted anymore. And you better not call it reset - because that's quite meaningless to a non web programmer. This stuff is much much harder than it seems.

kenver 18y ago
Software Engineering 101 - assume all your users are idiots.