RE: [Usability] Indicating required fields

["David Zulaica" <david pseudo-cyb org>]

The required fields could have a different color border.



-----Original Message-----

"Visually" how? I'd love ideas on this, as showing which fields in a 
form are required and which are optional is a general problem, 
especially in database-y applications (I encountered it in a 
Point-of-Sale app last week). Web applications usually put a star next 
to the label of compulsory fields, but that doesn't meet the standards 
of elegance expected from locally-installed software ("Subject:*" would 
look silly), and it doesn't work for fields that don't have labels to 
themselves (such as the port number for a single-protocol proxy 
server).