Re: Intuitive Interfaces

Chris Shiflett wrote:

Some Web sites I have visited think it is helpful to use some client-side scripting to move the focus from the first text field to the second after three numbers have been entered. So, when the user hits tab after entering the first three numbers, the second text field is skipped entirely. Isn't this a really terrible thing to do? It's an almost exact analogy to mangling mail headers. It has the same characteristics:

I think this is the worst thing to do. If they are going to this "jump to the next field when this is full script" why don't they put one field to start with? Can somebody explain why some developers do this? cesar