Shane A. Stillwell
Programmers should be lazy, but not at the expense of user experience

Programmers should be lazy, but not at the expense of user experience

#Programming

Hold on Cowboy

This blog post is pretty old. Be careful with the information you find in here. The Times They Are A-Changin'

Has this every happened to you. A form wants you to enter in your phone number… OK, let’s be honest, there are 20 different ways you can enter in your phone, but as far as a computer is concerned it’s just interested in the numbers.

So that means stripping out the non-numeric characters is trivial…

So why do so many sites do like this stupid site… make you enter in a phone the way THEY want you.

This example is so trivial to solve… a quick search can find you the answer in any language (PHP, JavaScript)

Please stop punishing users who sometimes have no choice but to use your software.