Centre for Software Practice

A constant usability issue has been users losing their data entry on forms by inadvertantly pressing the backspace button when the focus is not in a text box or other appropriate control. As very few users realise that backspace has another function in IE to go back a page, this then gets blamed on the web application as a bug. Of the solutions ...

Cross posted from myResearchSpace  I have recently been looking at issues around best practice in web design. Best practice is often encapsulated as the perceived wisdom of professionals which has become enshrined in the collective mythology of the profession. An example of this in web design is that ''users will give up on a website if ...