Posted by Dima Gofman on 12/21/05 18:55

hywel.jenkins@gmail.com wrote:

> Standardisation is, of course, an improvement, especially when the
> standard is updated. Then everything has to change. That's
> brilliant.

Perhaps we should also do away with XHTML and CSS 2/3? Is that what
your misplaced sarcasm means?

Look, you don't like using auto complete utilities, that's fine, I'm
not a fan myself but surely you can agree that if commonly used fields
were named the same it would be better for all of us, in the same way
as it would be if IE and FireFox rendered html in the same way. Having
standard names paves the way to simpler server-side data validation
tools e.g. a field is called "email" so it should be *@*.* and so on,
also if you inherit a project, it'll be easier to work out which field
is what in server-side scripts.

If you think auto complete agents are a bad idea then consider
disability aids, imagine you cannot see properly, or cannot type easily
and you're trying to fill in a form on an e-commerce site.

P.S.
> Dima Gofman wrote:
> > Search is just one example, there are also usernames, passwords
>
> That's exactly why it's a bad idea.
>

If you're quoting someone, it's impolite to cut phrases so that they
appear out of context, if you're going to quote, at least do it right.

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