[Zope3-dev] Re: Refresh / Change-Buttons

[Alexander Limi]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:39:41 -0800, Michael Haubenwallner <michael at d2m.at>  
wrote:

> Christian Theune wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:33 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
>>
>>> 'Refresh' should be called 'Reset' -- in fact resetting the form  
>>> contents to the original loaded values
>>> ('Reset' is also the buttons default value displayed in the browser)
>>   Well. That's not what the button currently does. When I click on it,  
>> it
>> does a page reload. A form reset does this without.
>>  Then, I also don't see many 'reset' buttons nowadays. And I don't miss
>> them. After all, I'm not sure in which order I would want them.
>>
>
> Should have been resolved as by this Issue
> http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/467

Good peoples!

Please don't include the "Reset" functionality in HTML forms. It is  
absolutely useless, and is considered one of the classic usability  
mistakes. Just say no, kids!

Seriously.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000416.html

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