On 13/05/10 17:37, Vince O'Sullivan wrote:
On May 13, 7:58 am, Fabrizio Giudici<[email protected]>
wrote:
What about "The phone number / credit card number must not contain
spaces" which I constantly find in checkout/etc pages?
Which reminds me... ...yesterday I entered my surname (O'Sullivan)
into the appropriate field and got:
Invalid surname. no special characters or numbers allowed
Regardless of the crap English grammar in the error message it beggars
belief that a bank (the same one as before) can ship customer oriented
software that doesn't recognise customer names that contain
apostrophes or hyphens.
(I guess it's better than having my surname crash the application -
which has happened elsewhere.)
I generate passwords using KeepassX -- by default that includes special
characters. I gave up on that idea for websites. I can handle the
rejection of a password, but I had more than one case where the password
was originally accepted, but then couldn't be used. In the most extreme
case they actually send me the password back via automated email
triggered by the "Forgot password" link, but trying to log in with it
just told me that username or password must be wrong.
Peter
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