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From: JPALME@qz.qz.se (Jacob Palme QZ)
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Subject: Order of fields in business card printed O/R-address format
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Date: 28 Mar 91 17:43:53 GMT
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> From: Erik Skovgaard <eskovgaa@cue.bc.ca>
> I am puzzled - when keywords are used, why is position specified?

Well this is a standard for printing the fields on business
cards, postal letter heads etc. And it is assumed that most
user interfaces will use some kind of form-fill-in
procedure. And of course it will then be easier for a human
to copy the values of the fields from the business card
into the form on the screen, if the order of the different
fields is the same.

Another possible user interface would of course be if the
user copies the whole "human readable string" directly into
his computer. The human factors study did however indicate,
that this is a less efficient and more error-prone method
for inputting an OR-address than a form-fill-in user interface
with separate fields for each OR-address attribute.