Date   : Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:41:47 +0000
From   : muzerakascooby@... (Muzer)
Subject: New Retro Auction Website

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Rick Murray wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> 
>> registration page looks an absolute mess in Opera 10:
> 
> Wow - somebody uses Opera! :-)

FWIW, I do too :)

 >> What's with the pop-up calendar for entering birth date?
> 
> That's strange. Why not a drop-down list with 1-31, Jan-Dec, 19xx-2010 
> (although I don't expect newborns to be registering, honestly).
> 
> The big danger with the date format as it LOOKS on your screenshot (too 
> tiny to see properly), is that Americans and Europeans use different 
> formats which for half the month look identical. Or have we all at least 
> worked out that "9/11" isn't a chilly November day?
> 
> FWIW, I use a slashed version (can't stand dash separators) of ISO8601, 
> or yyyy/mm/dd, on the basis of major-part-first. You can't have slashes 
> in filenames, so I just run all the numbers together, like on my b.log 
> where files have names like 20090118.html and without me doing a bit of 
> work, the files will all be correctly sorted by date order. :-)
> 

It's actually ISO to omit the dashes - but it's illegal to use slashes.

I would go for that, although it may be strange, it's unambiguous. Or at
least, have each field CLEARLY labelled "day", "month", "year".

> 
>  > And defaulting to today?
> 
> I'd love to say "Haha, that's stupid!" but instead I'll say:
>    If not today, when?
> There is no 'correct' day. At least using drop-down list items, you can 
> include default 'dummy' entries, like:
>    [ -- ] [ -- ] [ -- ]
> or be patronising with:
>    [please] [select] [date]
> 
> 
>> It errored when I cancelled it and typed in date, with "incorrect date
>> format"
> 
> Mmmm, really it is best to stay away from string dates and just use 
> separate fields and combine at the end _only_ for display.
> 
> 
>  > and on the refresh, had an \ in front of the apostrophe in my
>> surname.
> 
> Mmmm, the escaper isn't too smart. I trust it is the generic PHP library 
>   routine "stripentities()", because it seems daft enough. I wrote a 
> routine for my b.log code as stripentities() was so manky.
> 
> I wonder if you hit refresh AGAIN would it have said \\\' ?
> (and then \\\\\\\' then \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' and so on...)
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Rick.
> 


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