http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/11/08/1037769.aspxThere are lots of times that the code underneath the UI is made a bit more complicated to make the user experience simpler. Perhaps the most recognizable example of this is seen in the Save / Save As... functionality in most applications. Now Save As...en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/11/08/1037769.aspx#1043415Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:45:08 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1043415Charles Bocock<p>It's so much better for the developer to swallow the complexity and hide it from the customer. I see far too many developers passing the buck on this one.</p> <p>A really common example is a credit card number box that says &quot;Enter card number (Without spaces!!!)&quot;. How hard is it for the developer to just strip the spaces on the server side?</p> <p>You've done the right thing with MSKLC. Sure, you've made the output slightly bigger, but in these days of broadband and insane GiB hard drives it doesn't matter that you're &quot;wasting&quot; a few bytes.</p>