To all web developers

[DimPrawn]

Can you please stop making websites where I fill in a VERY long online form asking me everything there is possible to ask, making me click submit and then telling me something is wrong with the value in one of the fields, asking me to click a back button, only to be confronted by a fecking completely blank form.



Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank you know who you are.



Thank you.

[EternalOptimist]

Can you please stop making websites where I fill in a VERY long online form asking me everything there is possible to ask, making me click submit and then telling me something is wrong with the value in one of the fields, asking me to click a back button, only to be confronted by a fecking completely blank form.



Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank you know who you are.



Thank you.

The web is sh!te.

God used vb6 to create the world.

against an Oracle(?) back end

[bogeyman]

Can you please stop making websites where I fill in a VERY long online form asking me everything there is possible to ask, making me click submit and then telling me something is wrong with the value in one of the fields, asking me to click a back button, only to be confronted by a fecking completely blank form.



Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank you know who you are.



Thank you.

Browser issue? Clicking back should take you back to the form with the form fields filled in from the POST data.

It's a shabby way of doing it though. They should redisplay the form, complete with your entered data, and an error message within the form.

Lazy coders!

[Flubster]

against an Oracle(?) back end

That was version 1. He migrated to a SAS back-end in the current version.

[HankWangford]

alot to be said for validator controls and clientside validation

[AtW]

Use Firefox - it caches forms entry data (apart from password), beats IE sh1t big time.

[bogeyman]

Use Firefox - it caches forms entry data (apart from password), beats IE sh1t big time.

So does IE. So does every browser I've ever used.

Must agree that FF is much the better browser (except it crashes after opening and closing a large number of tabs. oh, and sometimes after viewing large PDF docs).

The add ons are excellent tho.

[AtW]

So does IE. So does every browser I've ever used.

That's not the case - IE is sh1te when it comes to remembering forms values when going back: think they expire from cache very quickly or something like this, where as FireFox is solid in this respect.

[Fleetwood]

There's no excuse for this..
You just write the values in Commarea or to a TS, fill the screen and do a Send Map

[kramer]

i believe the increasing use of ajax will further increase your frustration mr prawn!