[UPHPU] Confirm Email Address Form Field

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 05 Sep 2007, at 21:56, Brandon Stout wrote:

> I'm getting more and more annoyed with new web forms that make me  
> confirm my email address.  I realize that they are probably trying  
> to keep people from mis-typing their email address, but it  
> completely misses the point of a confirmation field.  As I see it,  
> you should use a "Confirm Password" field because it is not  
> displayed in clear text - it makes sense to confirm the password.   
> However email address form fields are plain text.  Furthermore,  
> people who mistype their email address will not receive the  
> "confirm your registration" email, so they will just have to try  
> again.  I've always pasted my email into the annoying "confirm  
> email" field.  However, one form I filled out recently topped off  
> my annoyance level with this field.  They actually had some  
> javascript that made it impossible to copy from the "Email" field,  
> and impossible to past anything into the "Confirm Email" field.  I  
> refused to subscribe after that.  Do y'all agree that this is an  
> unnecessary and annoying field, or should I just calm down and  
> accept this new trend?
>

Agreed.  Annoying.  Although Ray has a good point.  But that would  
still not be a good enough reason to damage the user experience as  
much as duplicate email fields does.

Jonathan