[Sigia-l] Cross posting: Phone number layout

[James Spahr]

One field and don't limit the character count to 10.

The benefits of 3 fields is that
1. the data is easier to validate (really, not much of an issue and any 
programmer who makes this claim should be relegated to data entry for a 
month)
2. a visual clue that an area code is needed

The benefits of 1 field:
1. The user is in control of the format of the number (some might see 
this as a bad thing -- from a user's perspective I think it is a very 
good thing)
2. Autocomplete in browsers (well my browser) likes the one field 
option better
3. Faster for skilled and unskilled users
4. Better for international users

well, that's my 2 cents.

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 12:40  PM, Jenn Coonce wrote:

> Why even three fields for the phone number? Should there just be one 
> field
> or is there a good reason for having three? If three, then which is
> preferable? Jumping automatically or waiting for the user to move the
> cursor?


James.