Date : Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:54:48 +0000
From : rich@... (Rich Mellor)
Subject: New Retro Auction Website
Rick Murray wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>
>
>> registration page looks an absolute mess in Opera 10:
>>
>
> Wow - somebody uses Opera! :-)
>
> That's quite a mess, indeed. Or, a case of "oh look, a messed up table
> width (again)".
>
I also use Opera for testing, but had never tried the user registration
page - I have passed this onto the designers, as I don't know enough
about CSS !!
>
>
>> 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. :-)
>
Actually - what does the date of birth add to the system? You can put
anything you like in the field, and we don't use it for anything, so it
may as well be removed (done).
>
> > 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...)
>
No - stripslashes was missing on that field - PHP5 automatically escapes
odd characters, so the code has to be modified compared to PHP4 which
doesn't do it automatically so far as I know.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Rick.
>
>
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