Do you know what really bugs me about on-line shopping? Credit card fields where you either must or must not put in the spaces between the groups of digits in your credit card number. It’s even worse when they don’t tell you which they expect.
A note to on-line shopping web site developers: Get with it! This is the 21st century. On-line shopping sites are hosted on computers. Computers can be programmed to deal with such trivialities as extra or missing spaces. A credit card number has sixteen digits (e.g. 1234 5678 9101 1121). The digits are all that matters. If your order processing system needs the spaces and the user didn’t type them, put them in. If your system doesn’t want the spaces and the user did type them, strip them out. This is easy to do in any programming language (except perhaps FORTRAN; if your web site is programmed in FORTRAN, please re-read the first sentence in this paragraph).
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