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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll
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> [ snip ] Also, it annoys me that (I have done this on occasion)
> the sites don't validate the combination of state and zip
> code. Especially since the drop-downs aren't always in the
> same order, depending if is built with the state postal
> abbreviation, or with the state name.
I find it much easier to simply type IL than to move a hand from the
keyboard to the mouse, find the drop-down "hotspot" and scroll around
trying to accurately hit "IL" or "Illinois"; yet invariably if I type IL
I find that I've "selected" whatever state is first in the segment that
starts witl "L".
-jc-
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> Wayne Driscoll
> Product Developer
> NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:18 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web
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> On Sun, 11 May 2008 20:52:44 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
> >John McKown wrote:
> >>
> >> (1) for learning and (2) to prove it could be done with
> z/OS. So many
> >> PC Weenies preen with pride thinking that z/OS cannot do anything
> >> "new and nifty". Wrong.
> >
> >Wrong indeed. Good on you.
> >
> But note how many dinos preen with pride their overt contempt
> of the "new and nifty" for hardly better reason than their
> (mis-)perception that it bears the indelible taint of the "PC
> Weenies". Bad on them.
>
> -- gil
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