{"id":1000562,"date":"2007-04-20T06:20:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T11:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/user-interface\/2007\/04\/20\/what-is-this-1986-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T06:27:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T11:27:01","slug":"what-is-this-1986-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/user-interface\/2007\/04\/20\/what-is-this-1986-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is This? 1986? Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I hear about this new Twitter thing, think it sounds sort of cool, and decide to try it out. I cruise over to their web site and fill out the registration form, and here’s what I see:<\/p>\n

Oops! Please fix the following problems: Name is too long (maximum is 20 characters)<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, it won’t accept “Elliotte Rusty Harold” as a name. It gets stuck right before the d. Seems it believes no name can be longer than 20 letters, and “Elliotte Rusty Harold” is 21.
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This is supposed to be the future of the Web? More like the past of bad user interface design. If one of my students made this sort of mistake, I’d take three points off their homework and make them do it over. When a majorly hyped Web 2.0 app like Twitter makes it, I get seriously worried. <\/p>\n

Of course, it’s not like I haven’t seen this before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I hear about this new Twitter thing, think it sounds sort of cool, and decide to try it out. I cruise over to their web site and fill out the registration form, and here’s what I see: Believe it or not, it won’t accept “Elliotte Rusty Harold” as a name. It gets stuck right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-interface","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}