{"id":105,"date":"2007-08-28T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/28\/stupid-stupid\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T14:00:59","slug":"stupid-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/28\/stupid-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid, Stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web forms should be designed to minimize data loss. Let me explain two scenarios in the past 24 hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>I spent a while getting the wording just right on <a href=\"https:\/\/accounts.craigslist.org\/post\/shwpst?pii=407733032&#038;db=lv\">my Craigslist post<\/a>. I found one minor thing to fix, so I clicked back. But stupid, stupid Craigslist dynamically generates the names of the forms (probably to combat spam), which meant that none of the data showed up when I clicked back, since, as far as Firefox was concerned, it was a brand new form. So I had to rewrite it from scratch. Grrr! <strong>This is a really bad design idea<\/strong>.<\/li>\n    <li>I spent even longer crafting a reply to an e-mail in OWA. I finally got it just right and clicked &#8220;Send.&#8221; And got the login screen. It seems that, even though I was actively working on the e-mail, I timed out due to inactivity. Of course, the e-mail I wrote wasn&#8217;t sent, and wasn&#8217;t even saved as a draft. It&#8217;s just gone. To me, <strong>this is a major bug<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can&#8217;t do much about Craigslist, but it&#8217;s a &#8220;Fool me once&#8230;&#8221; thing with OWA. I think this was the third time I&#8217;ve lost an e-mail I spent a long time working on due to the inactivity bug. So I think I&#8217;m just going to start forwarding my school mail to GMail.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web forms should be designed to minimize data loss. Let me explain two scenarios in the past 24 hours: I spent a while getting the wording just right on my Craigslist post. I found one minor thing to fix, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/28\/stupid-stupid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}