Re: Reset checkbutton problem

On Jan 17, 10:01 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@xxxxxx>
wrote:
RobG wrote:
On Jan 17, 9:26 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@xxxxxx>
wrote:
RobG wrote:
On Jan 17, 4:00 am, David Mark <dmark.cins...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 16, 10:07 am, GArlington <garling...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 16, 2:20 pm, Giovanni D'Ascola <giovanni.dasc...@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Giovanni D'Ascola ha scritto:> Hi.
I noticed that <input type="reset"> actually don't enable checkbutton
which are checked by default after they have been disabled by
javascript. It's a bug?
The browser is Mozilla Firefox.
This behaviour is exhibited by IE6 too... Both are NOT reseting the
value of disabled attribute.
Another good reason to forget about reset buttons. They are worse
than useless.
I don't think so - most forms should have a reset button, perhaps
labelled "Cancel", unless there is a very good reason not to have one.
Would this suffice? http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000416.html

No.

That is one person's opinion and is based on a number of spurious
assertions from a particular point of view. [...]

You might want to check the background of the author before making *your*
spurious assertions. Jakob Nielsen certainly is not just anyone.

He certainly isn't, but for the article to be taken at anything other
than face value, references need to be provided where assertions are
made.

Statements like:

"The Web is characterized by frequent movement between pages and users
rarely encounter the same form twice."

indicate that Jakob's context is a general user on the web, but there
are many other contexts - e.g. business applications (regardless of
whether it is web-based or not). In that case, users frequently visit
the same form - some will nearly always have data already in them and
others only sometimes. It is not reasonable to characterise the
entire gamut of user interface design from a single perspective.

If you wish to use Jakob's work to support your case (which is quite
reasonable) you should find an article written in an appropriate
context, or make your own arguments based on references to his work.


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Rob
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