I don't have any technical solutions for you, but I do have a few observations...
A few years ago, we moved from a mainframe/emulator system to a web-based system run on an ASS/400. The consulting company was given the directive to "duplicate" the mainframe UI in a web browser. Let me just say IT SUCKS!!! First, they broke the common usage of text input fields. They added "auto-tab" javascript so that when a field was full, the typing continued in the next field. Guess how many hundreds and thousands of records have gender codes of "S", ";", "@". If they would have just let the damn browser "ding" when you have typed the full amount of text and not jumped to the next field, it would have saved tons of cleanup. Then, the auto-tab feature won't let you backspace through a field. You have to wipe out the value and type it again. It's horrible. That, along with other problems, is why I preach to NOT change the default actions of a web browser just to shield people from change. Quite a few of our users have never touched a computer before, so now they have a warped sense of web browsers. When they go home, the wonder why their browser doesn't work right, like the one a work. ;^) Many people know how to use a web browser. If you don't "hack" the UI, then, when you bring in new employees, you won't have to "un-train" them on how to use a browser. They will just know. M!ke -----Original Message----- From: Rusty Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: IE behaviors/bugs OK, I am working on an application and I have two questions from the users. First they are used to doing all their work in an access database and they don't like using the mouse. They have two problems I told them I would look into. First, the first item in the form is a pulldown menu. They are used to be able to drill down by typing , since they can't do that, for some reason they hit the backspace key. This takes them back one page. Is there a way to disable that behavior. Second, since they don't like have the above select behavior, I gave them a text box to enter certain other criteria, on submit of the form I check to see if this data is valid. I can't use Javscript since I am checking to see if an item exists in the database. If it doesn't. I abort with an error and a link to go back. If they click the link or the back button on the browser, they lose all the information they submitted. Any ideas? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:254472 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
