User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment • Hacker News Board

c0nsumer wrote: post #45

I think I found a bug. When I put 4-Aug-1978 for birthdate, and 41 for age, it said age and birthday don't match. It validated successfully on 42. Although maybe that's part of the game?

Not sure, I didn't want to do math so I just put in todays date and an age of 0. Worked!

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by shric » Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 8:40 PM UTC

canada_dry wrote: post #40

For Canadians... I love this one: ENTER YOUR POSTAL CODE: A1A1A1 Lazy %@$# front-end devs that can't reformat the input!

I'd say it's the backend's job to accept any of those and reformat accordingly. If you rely on the frontend the backend would still have to validate it anyway.

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Post by ceejayoz » Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 8:40 PM UTC

canada_dry wrote: post #40

For Canadians... I love this one: ENTER YOUR POSTAL CODE: A1A1A1 Lazy %@$# front-end devs that can't reformat the input!

My email address has a dash in the domain and it's remarkable how many sites (and big ones, too!) reject it as an invalid domain.

Discover.com, for example, rejected it when I did a card application, but disabling JavaScript let it go through on the server-side validation. Bloody weird.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 8:40 PM UTC

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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by jammaloo » Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC

c0nsumer wrote: post #45

I think I found a bug. When I put 4-Aug-1978 for birthdate, and 41 for age, it said age and birthday don't match. It validated successfully on 42. Although maybe that's part of the game?

If you were born in August 1978, you would currently be 42 years old.