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Dotcom Scoop[1]: "CNET's Download.com is set to introduce a new program for its
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On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 12:54 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy
wrote:
> Although it's like a total shock to 99.999% (5nines) of all the
> employed website designers out there, the truth is webforms /can/
> accept "U.S. of A" as a country.  Incredible, but true.  Web forms can
> also accept /multiple/ or even /free-form/ telephone numbers and can
> even be partitioned into manageable steps. All this can also be done
> without selling exclusive rights to your wallet to the World's
> Second-Richest Corporation (assuming Cisco is still #1) and vendor
> locking your business into their "small transaction fee" tithe.
Yes, but this is what normally happened:
Engineer: we can put an input validator/parser on the backend to do
that.
Designer: there's a JavaScript library that can do some of the
pre-validation.
Creative Director: I want it in blue, with a zooming logo.
Engineer: can we get to that later, we need to meet functional specs.
Creative Director: You *don't* understand. *I* want it in blue.
Creative Director: Oh, and the site launches this Friday because I sent
out a press release about our new strategic partnership with HypeCorp.
Designer: fine, we'll just put a list of countries in a drop down.
Engineer: and we can validate against that list.
Creative Director: I don't give a shit. As long as it's in blue. And
has a link to my press release.
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