Who is Kim Siever?

I wish there was a consortium for setting standards on form fields.

I fill out a lot of forms. As such, I assume that by now I can fill out a basic form asking for contact informaton and I should be able to use my browser’s auto-complete features. Yet, it doesn’t always happen. And it doesn’t always happen because developers are assigning names to their fields that thwart this practice.

For example, instead of assigning the name of “email” to an email field, they assign it the name of “session_key”.

Why can’t we just make things work for people?

Is it better to create a name field that allows the users to type in their names anyway they want, or should the first and last names be separated into different fields for better data management?

When I was growing up in urban Saskatchewan, we often referred to the midday meal as dinner and the evening meal as supper. It seems now that whenever I use the term dinner, everywhere I go people ask me “Do you mean lunch”. Is this usage no longer common in Canada?