But I am getting the feeling that the reset button is not only a waste
of time, but in fact fairly user-unfriendly. ...
Seriously: how many people enter data into a form and go so completely
wrong that they want to erase everything they have just done and start
over new?
On the other hand, how many people *accidentally* press the reset
button when they actually wanted to hit the submit button?
I think in most forms, a reset button is junk and can only add stress
to the site's relationship with the user. The "edit initial
information" form mentioned by Justin is the exception.
However, I suspect we'll see more of them for AJAX-powered form
submission. Much like previous uses with frames, the form may be
persistent while the submission results change. There may be cases for
those forms where a new submission ought to start with a blank or
initialized slate, and the form is not blanked out via the submission
process. There likely will develop a better way to handle it though,
since the Javascript needed to handle the form is so much easier than
the stuff for such an application.
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