Quite so Bryan! For those who don't know I'm in Australia, and I tried to buy a product on line from a HP subsidiary a few years ago - a large, reasonably well managed international company - and I was required to enter my 5 digit zip code (we only have 4 digits here, and anyway, it validated against a list of US zip codes), my phone number in US format ( we dont have (xxx) yyy-zzzz format here - it's (x)yyyy-zzzz) and of all things, my SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!!!
I dont have a social security number, because I'm not in the USA. I ended up having to call my brother who lives in Indianapolis, and ask him for his, and make up a number similar to that. HP ended up getting my order, because i really needed the product, but their info was useless because it had a bogus zip code, a non-existent phone number, and a fraudulent social security number. If I hadn't needed the product so badly, I'd never have bothered with the order. Although maybe not. I was so intrigued with how flawed the form design was, it became a challenge for me. Maybe I'd have persevered after all. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:26:13 -0800, Bryan Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope...my day is fine...just sounded like masks where the next sliced bread > ;-) > > I always do server-side validation....but I can see the benefit of mask > support on the client-side (as I really don't like JS based validation). > > .....and what I was getting at earlier is that even though you can use masks > for phone number formatting you have to build your own logic to determine > the correct mask to use based on the user's location...making sure newer > folks on the list think this kind of situation through as North America is > not the center of the universe ;-) > > Cheers > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > phone: 250.480.0642 > fax: 250.480.1264 > cell: 250.920.8830 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.electricedgesystems.com.cfm/54 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:197929 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
