Re: Form Validation

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Thu, 03 Aug 2000 09:45:45 +1000
To:	"Blakeley, Kevin" <kblakeley(at)insurancetechnologies.com>, HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:
	todo: View Thread, Original

At 10:58 2/08/00 -0600, Blakeley, Kevin wrote:
> >From your experience, what is more annoying for the user when validating a
>form:
>
>1) Validate as they enter the information
>2) Validate once when they hit the submit button

Definitely 1 - if I'm typing quickly (well, as quick as I can :) I know I 
sometimes make mistakes which I can go back and change 
later.  Alternatively there may be a field I want to skip over because I 
don't have the info immediately on hand and want to fill the rest of the 
form in first.  Validating as I enter the info is more irritating as it 
interferes with the way I want to complete the form, preventing me from 
continuing.

Chris

HWG hwg-techniques mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA