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Re:HTML Form Validation is heavily underused by francislavoie on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @09:31AM (#41983671)
I'm not using "stupid" in the derogatory sense. I'm using it as a recognition of the skill/knowledge gap between technical and non-technical users.

To clarify, we get _asked_ by our users to implement fields that limit input to help them avoid mistakes. Our QA and UX teams agree. This isn't a unilateral engineering decision.

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Re:HTML Form Validation is heavily underused by eru on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:58PM (#41990980)
Yes, you want to provide guidance, but without getting in the way.

That's why I was suggesting letting the user paste in these 'wrong' characters, but offering help in removing them.

Of course, that's a trade-off. And it's more annoying to design and implement than just forbidding those characters from entering the input field in the first place.

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