I just enter the 16 digits without much trouble.

Then I get to the expiration date and the first column is a drop list of Jan, Feb, Mar... wat?

Now my brain has to convert 07 to Jul instead of just picking 07. Why?!

Are developers trying to make users angry?

Then I get to the CVC code. I have to turn the card, there are two numbers, printed such that they look unimportant. Which one should I pick?

Banks are making users angry really.

Phone numbers and dashes/parens is another peeve. Not because I really care, per se, but it really does make so many sites difficult to use.

There are exactly two correct ways of handling a phone number.

* A text input field (which you will store as the user entered)

* What will eventually be coerced in to a series of just numbers in a string.

I was going to comment the same thing, and this is a good reminder

Never make the user do what code can do, unless you have a good reason for it

And no, making them take the spaces manually (or spaces/dashes/parenthesis in a phone number) is not a good reason

I just looked up a flight on Delta's site. I entered the flight number, or what most people would consider the flight number. "DL133" Delta darius it was an invalid number. Turns out they just wanted "123" how hard would it have been for them to strip the leading "DL"? Apparently to hard

They probably have a ticket for it in JIRA, at the bottom of the backlog with other things that make people's life easier, because POs want insert_annoying_features_here instead.

Of course there is the occasional website that requires the spaces to be inserted.

Bonkers.