A similar annoyance is writing a well-thought out forum post, pressing submit, and being told in some way that your session has expired. Some sites you can go back to retrieve your post, others will just present you with a newly empty form.
Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms
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Re: Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms
#22Dear Cats on the internet, please spellcheck your posts and proofread them before you post your rants to the internet. Otherwise some people might think they are unpleasant to read and possibly wont take them serious. If you have a "related reading" section you might want to also use it to post some links to those guides. We are here to help each other, aren't we? And: No, I don't use reset buttons.
Re: Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms
#23A similar annoyance is writing a well-thought out forum post, pressing submit, and being told in some way that your session has expired. Some sites you can go back to retrieve your post, others will just present you with a newly empty form.
i have taken to select-all-copy before submitting anything anywhere for just this reason!
Re: Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't that better be served by a "new" button?
From user acceptance testing we done, that gives the impression it would create a new record from the populated data. Edit: we use the wording "Clear" not "Reset" btw.
Re: Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms
#25Why not add the following rule to your user stylesheet? input[type=reset] {display: none; visibility:hidden;} That hides them all from view.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
i have taken to select-all-copy before submitting anything anywhere for just this reason!
I thought everyone started doing this back in 1997.
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#27Re: Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms
#28Even better, get rid of your forms entirely, especially long forms with all kind of questions that you really don't need the answer to. Or have fields that are ambigious and improperly validated. Or multipage forms that have no way of going back without losing your filled in data.
Re: Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought everyone started doing this back in 1997.
Opera did a good job of remembering what I typed in the box quite well, right up until people started adding boxes to the DOM willy-nilly!
Re: Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms
#30A similar annoyance is writing a well-thought out forum post, pressing submit, and being told in some way that your session has expired. Some sites you can go back to retrieve your post, others will just present you with a newly empty form.