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Ughhhhhhh!
I have tried not to respond to this mail and your previous one - but hell I
cant!

Seriously - your comment about developers is at best arrogant.

With many people preferring different ways of inputting dates, how exactly
do you propose to "let the user input what they want, and solve it
programmatically" given different preferences? 
Of is generalisation the theme for today?

I personally prefer to have a text field for year - but that's cos a drop
down makes me feel old if I have to scroll too far!

But I guess on your *solution* I should be able to enter any old sh!t - I
mean input what I want - and you will solve it "programagically" I mean
programmatically?

I look forward to that....
Sam


-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Francis [mailto:laura.k.francis at gmail.com] 
Sent: 28 March 2008 17:02
To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
Subject: Re: [_] form fields

Although I've not read a lot of the posts in detail on this thread
(there is a reason) I'd say that from a UX perspective most of the
discussion/solutions I've seen touted are what I would call
developer/programmer solutions.

They aren't necessarily based in the best & easiest possible user
experience. That is, let the user input what they want how they want
and solve it programmatically.

WARNING: Gross generalisation coming:
<gross generalisation>

Developers designing inputs is how you end up with crappy forms.

</gross generalisation>

Laura

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