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Title: UX for bitcoin address field Post by: Stephen Gornick on April 25, 2011, 10:11:47 PM The user experience for pasting to the bitcoin address input field in a web form varies widely across Bitcoin's growing presence on exchanges, merchant sites, blogs, etc.
Is it appropriate to massage the value that was input? e.g., to strip out leading blank space character, or a trailing linefeed, etc? Or are there any other tips regarding the UX for this field? Title: Re: UX for bitcoin address field Post by: Stephen Gornick on April 25, 2011, 11:07:03 PM Here's a specific example of why I ask this:
MtGox withdrawal issues http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6511.msg95327#msg95327 (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6511.msg95327#msg95327) Title: Re: UX for bitcoin address field Post by: theymos on April 26, 2011, 02:44:21 AM Trimming invalid characters is a good idea. The chance that you make a valid address from nothing is nearly 0 -- if you get a valid address, the user pasted one.
I've seen many sites assume that Bitcoin addresses must be 33 or 34 characters long, but they can actually be 25-43 characters in length. All sites should verify address checksums. I don't like the idea of asking Bitcoin over RPC for every address, though: there's code for checking yourself in several languages. Title: Re: UX for bitcoin address field Post by: ByteCoin on April 26, 2011, 11:25:33 PM I've seen many sites assume that Bitcoin addresses must be 33 or 34 characters long, but they can actually be 25-43 characters in length. Please provide either examples or at least a plausible argument for the existence of valid addresses shorter than 27 characters or longer than 34 characters. I've corrected you on this before http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1019.msg12683#msg12683 ByteCoin Title: Re: UX for bitcoin address field Post by: theymos on April 27, 2011, 12:50:11 AM lease provide either examples or at least a plausible argument for the existence of valid addresses shorter than 27 characters or longer than 34 characters. I've corrected you on this before http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1019.msg12683#msg12683 26 characters: 11111111111111111111BZbvjr I did wrongly remember the upper limit, though. It is 34 characters. I must have flipped the digits in my head. Title: Re: UX for bitcoin address field Post by: Garrett Burgwardt on April 27, 2011, 01:45:56 AM Another thing - slightly offtopic: The remnants from IP transfers confuse a lot of people, they need to be removed ASAP.
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