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<font size="+1">Please Select County.<br>
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That is the message, a command, no less, under a computer screen
text-box drop-down item that is supposed to give the user a choice
among various items from a list already programmed into the
application.<br>
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OK, let's think about this. A county name. The number of these
in any American state is known and has been fixed for quite some
time now. Even in Idaho. In Idaho the number of counties is 44,
and the correct answer to be chosen from this drop-down is Latah.
Except the application is frozen, and the drop-down won't open to
allow a choice. Oops.<br>
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Yes, it's a little frustrating. Actually, it's more than a little
frustrating because prior to arriving at this particular
non-responsive drop-down box, the user had already entered a
street address, a city, a zip code, and, believe it or not, a
state, in an application form that only works for one state.
After all that information was entered, clicking on a Continue
button caused a pop-up item to whirl around on the screen with a
note reading "Address Verification" after which the user was
prompted to Please Select County. Let's review that. After the
address was verified, the user is commanded to Please Select
County. In which state, do you suppose, such computer code might
be approved for use?<br>
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Clicking the icon labeled Save results in a pop-up dialog box with
the message Please try again.<br>
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And isn't it reassuring that Google Analytics is collecting all of
this information?<br>
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