On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:11:43PM -0600, Dave Crocker wrote: > At 11:50 PM 3/21/2002 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > >ohn Stracke writes: > >> For that matter, a well-designed application will not even make it > >> possible to enter anything but ASCII in an input field (whatever) for a > >> domain name. > > > >That's incredibly bad design. > > > A UI that actually enforces the syntactic rules of the underlying service? > > Yes, indeed, that is truly a terrible idea. > > It would be much better to let users enter strings that are not valid so > that some time in the future -- they can never be sure when -- the user's > string will be found to be invalid and cause an error return to the user -- > again, sometime later. > > Absolutely a superior outcome!
in that sense, current design of ms ie is very bad. it just sends non ldh input to their seach engine ! -- /*------------------------------------------------ YangWoo Ko : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------*/
