RE: Strategy for navigation & validation

[Kenneth Albanowski]

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, DaveM wrote:

> Interesting problem, but be careful about letting technology force a human
> factors issue.  Maybe I don't know someone's postal code when I'm entering
> the record.  You could pop up a warning page, but that might get annoying.
> Maybe I'm in a country that doesn't even have a postal code.  There could
> possibly be a default padded field of white spaces that gets filled in by
> the user's input, but this should not bring anything down.

Remember that Scott said that an empty ZIP field would take the SQL server
down. Given that assumption, I think this does seem a valid case for a
forcing function: a technological limitation exists, so the human factors
must take it into consideration, and make the limitation palpable (to
perhaps use a poor term) by the user.

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> From: Kenneth Albanowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 4:38 PM
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> Subject: Re: Strategy for navigation & validation
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