About Those MAXLENGTHS

I was reviewing this user interface designed in an old technology, when suddenly I was struck by the infeasibility of the maxlengths assigned to the fields:


Cruise for youse with early AOL e-mail addresses
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That’s a maximum e-mail address of 20 characters. Chop 4 or 5 off for the domain extension, the dot, and the @ sign and suddenly you’re limited to a username and a domain name of 15-16 characters. If you’re not at MSN or AOL and an early adopter at that, you’d better hope that they call you on the phone if you’ve won.

Okay, aside from that, what’s the other problem on the page?

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8 Responses to “About Those MAXLENGTHS”

  1. jstrazzere Says:
    July 29th, 2010 at 6:39 am

    I don’t see any other problem.

    But then I am both interested and not interested in joining The Godfather’s eClub. Youse gut a problem wit dat?

  2. The Director Says:
    July 29th, 2010 at 6:58 am

    I’ll give you a hint. It’s a logic problem.

    I’ll post the answer later or tomorrow. Let’s give the other people who read but don’t comment a chance.

  3. dsynadinos Says:
    July 29th, 2010 at 7:47 am

    Something to do with the fact that “you must be 18 years or older…” and there is no “Birthday – Year” field?

  4. dsynadinos Says:
    July 29th, 2010 at 7:50 am

    Wait…I got it! Godfather’s pizza discontinued extra large pepperoni!

  5. The Director Says:
    July 29th, 2010 at 7:56 am

    That counts as extra since that’s not what I spotted. Good job.

  6. JulieR Says:
    July 29th, 2010 at 10:23 am

    That’s a pretty long phone field for someone who can’t write in a country name.

  7. esdqa Says:
    July 29th, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    What dsynadinos said, plus ampersand misuse.

  8. The Director Says:
    July 30th, 2010 at 7:07 am

    Well, the answer I was looking for is that the instructions say use ALL capital letters, which would preclude punctuation (dots, @ symbols, and dashes in the phone number).

    But good on yas for finding your own.