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> Why disallow it, or use it to argue that the standard isn't good? Because lots of folks fat finger their own e-mail addresses and then complain that a 'site
by throw0101d 2y ago
> Why disallow it, or use it to argue that the standard isn't good?
Because lots of folks fat finger their own e-mail addresses and then complain that a 'site sucks' because signing up doesn't work. Sanity checking to protect people against themselves may be treated as a form of UX: it's probably why some forms insist you type (not copy-paste) your e-mail twice.
- xp84 2y agoI'm perpetually flabbergasted by how anyone thinks this "no pasting" thing is a pro-accuracy idea. As though people would be copying from a bad source. I see this a lot on forms for bank account numbers -- maybe one of the least amenable formats to visually copying down and retyping, since they're never written with delimiters or punctuation. I store them in my password manager, and then some idiotic form wants me to type my 18-digit bank account number, twice, on my phone, where I can't see more than one application at a time.