[muglo] Re: Leading Zeros in Browser

There's no real standard to apply in both cases. PC especially is
justified in rejecting crap. Billing numbers come in so many different
permutations and combinations that it makes sense to have a clean &
simple interface that is known to work than one which requires a
different set of code for each bill.

As for phone numbers ... that's a matter of personal preference. Most
apps that do data entry demand no hyphens because of the nature of
phone numbers. Again, there there tends to be variance in how people
like to enter/store them. Some people prefer hypens (official modern
format), some like brackets + hyphens (officially discouraged) and
data entry goes for no hyphens whatsoever... we don't enter hypens
into phones, do we?

Eric.

On 4/20/05, Gerhard <gerhardk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know what you mean.  I use President Choice Financial and when you
> register a account number of a bill you want to pay online it requires
> you to ignore all blanks, dashes etc.  I don't know if they now
> document that this is how you are to enter the account numbers but they
> did not when I first started with them and it took a call to the help
> desk to figure it out.
>=20
> Gerhard
>=20
> On Apr 17, 2005, at 10:59 PM, Lee Dickey wrote:
>=20
> > 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
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