AMEN!

Just like enter your phone number format xxx-xxx-xxxx

But the worst one, Enter your City, State and Zip Code. Don't those idiots

know how to look up zip codes?

SET RANT OFF

Jerry Cotton, MCP

2nd Marine Aircraft Wing

Management Training and Assistance Team

Cherry Point, NC 28533

(252)466-4854

mailto:cottonjp.ctr@2mawcp.usmc.mil

Some people spend a lifetime wondering if they made a difference.

MARINES don't have that problem!

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Ed Leafe [mailto:ed@leafe.com]

> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:24 AM

> To: ProFox Email List

> Subject: Re: What's wrong with this XML that VFP barfs?

>

> On Apr 1, 2004, at 11:19 AM, Michael J. Babcock wrote:

>

> > Looks like you're right...I'll mandate the dashes instead of the

> > periods....thanks a million, Derek!

>

> If this is an interactive form, don't "mandate"

> anything to your users. It is trivial to substitute dashes

> for the periods in code.

>

> I really hate websites that have stuff like "Enter your

> credit card number. DO NOT USE SPACES OR DASHES - digits

> only". That tells me that the person who coded that site

> doesn't even know how to strip out non-numeric characters

> before processing, and makes me wonder what other junk

> they've written in the programming.

>

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> Ed Leafe

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