> Besides, what is so special with electronic forms that we have to go > through all kind of tricks to make sure the user doesn't make mistakes > when regular paper forms just assume the user will be careful when he > fills it? Must be some kind of IQ draining field emited by all the > computers which only computer experts are immune to :D
The speciality comes from paper forms being read by humans - or at least that used to be the case. And as we still are more clever than your average OCR program (and even than the not-so-average ones), that leads to comparably good results. But a computer that is supposed to process an electronic form - you have to make sure to apply proper bondage techniques to make the user obey to your command.... Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
