Adrain - To clarify on the "reliable" part, it's pretty much as Bryan suggests: that the stakeholder wants to avoid the "aslkjfsdlfj" gobbledy-gook input. Which, I can't even fathom how to determine that on most text input fields.
Bryan - you make a really great point that I will bring up with our stakeholders if the discussion continues. You're so right. When *I* input false data, I don't actually type gobbledy-gook; I type in something like "Bob Smith". Which is a completely valid name, just not my own. Regarding the phone field: I think we will just validate that no alpha-characters are input, as we do want to include international codes and prefix. It'll be basic validation is all, nothing restrictive. And with email, I agree that it's probably ok to check format; the idea proposed to me was to not allow users to input anything from a freebie/generic domain, e.g., @hotmail.com, so as to *only* receive "real company addresses". I said that we shouldn't do that for a couple reasons: 1- Some people may not be ready to share their company address, regardless that their inquiry may be company related. 2 - The additional labeling and error messaging may produce worse results in the end. -Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45860 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
