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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 08/08/06 20:13
Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> scripsit:
> If your goal is to provide users with a way to clear their entries and
> start over, relying on them to guess that refreshing the page might
> work isn't the way to go about it anyway.
That's correct!
> That's what the Reset button is for:
> <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
No! The "reset" button - which should be called destruction button - is for
causing serious frustration when the user hits it by accident. It has other
destructive features too.
Well, maybe it _was_ for the purpose you describe, but it was spoiled by
making it an almost "standard" button that "has" to reside alongside with
the submit button, just to give users a sporting chance of wiping out all of
their input irrecoverably.
The constructive method is that the form handler, after checking and
processing the form data and doing something with it, echoes back a result
page. That page should tell whatever the user needs to know about the
processing. Moreover, if deemed useful, it may then contain a fresh form for
entering a new set of data.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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