[Sigia-l] Registration form field character limits

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Skot Nelson [mailto:skot at penguinstorm.com] 
> Sent: 16 November 2006 18:47
> To: Jonathan Baker-Bates
> Cc: SIGIA-L
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Registration form field character limits
> 
> Jonathan Baker-Bates wrote:
> > BTW, I then eschew length limit error messages - just stop people 
> > typing more (although it depends rather on the context
> 
> I'm astonished when this isn't handled this way.
> 
> I can't imagine a context in which allowing the person to 
> enter more than the limit and providing an error message 
> would be useful.
> 
> At least not one that doesn't involve phishing.

There are some legitimate exceptions: if the user is likely to paste
text in, for example, you don't want to truncate silently - and possibly
some other contexts too.

There is no absolute "right" - as we all know.



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