Re: Intuitive Interfaces

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:50, Chris Shiflett wrote: [snip] > 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. [snip] I would think it would be a horribly bad thing for global companies. If you only have a north american market it would be annyoing for the users, but if you do it for a global company then you're losing a lot of possible customers. You make the unsafe assumption that everyone adding their phone number has a 3-3-4 style phone number. In Taiwan, for example, it's x-4-4. I think it's 3-4-4. They wouldn't be able to enter a phone number. If it's a required item then they couldn't regsiter, and the site lost a customer. Just my one cent. -- "I have a photographic memory. I just forgot the film" --Unknown ============================= Ryan Thompson rthomp@sympatico.ca http://osgw.sourceforge.net