[muglo] Re: Leading Zeros in Browser

This might have nothing to do with the browser, but with the way numbers
are massaged by the form itself.  If the author of the form did not make
provision for the entry of characters, but made the assumption that only
numbers would be entered, then any number of the type "0n" will of 
course
be treated as just "n".

This brings me to one of my pet peeves.  The other day I needed to enter
my phone number into a form.  The feeble minded programmer that wrote 
the
form insisted that I remove all blanks and hyphens from the data I 
entered.
If he is so bloody compulsive about the way he stores the numeric 
information,
that is his business alone, and he should not force me to enter it that
way.  I don't care how he stores the information I hand across.  He may
quietly strip away the blanks and hyphens and not bother to tell me 
about
it, but he should allow me to enter the data any way I find it 
convenient
to remember and present it.

The same point applies to certain other important numbers
in ones life, which one might from time to time type on a computer
keyboard.

Lee

On 2005 Apr 14, at 20:19, Paul Thomas wrote:

> A couple of times recently I wanted to insert in a web page form
> numbers with a leading zero.  It wouldn't work because the leading zero
> was stripped before submission making it incorrect!  Does anyone know
> if there is a preference for handling this as I cannot find one?  I
> have tried this with 3 browsers: Firefox, Safari and IE - they were all
> the same!!
>
> Paul
>
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