My Pet Peeve
I hate it when credit card forms on web sites don’t accept spaces between the groups of digits. They are obviously valid characters, since they appear on the card itself.
I hate it when credit card forms on web sites don’t accept spaces between the groups of digits. They are obviously valid characters, since they appear on the card itself.
July 27th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
I hate that too.
No good reason for it, except that programmers are trained to think rigidly.
August 1st, 2006 at 6:43 pm
it’s all about sanitizing the input before checking for incorrect formatting. I can’t imagine it’s too hard to remove some spaces from a CCN string.
I like Ezra’s suggestion, except it discounts the (heavy, if not primary) role of work experience in “training” any professional developer. So either a lot of web UI work gets done by non-professional devs, or it gets done for managers who don’t really give a shit about the quality of the final product. I’d believe both are often in effect.