<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Christopher. B is the least-worst option. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">You're right: it allows people to give two or more genres the same ranking, but at least it forces the entry of a ranking for each genre, which the other options do not do.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><morning grumble></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">And I still maintain that </font><b style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">preventing</b><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"> the input of invalid data is not really a 'validation technique'. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Wikipedia says: "In computer science, data validation is the process of ensuring that a program operates on clean, correct and useful data. It uses routines, often called "validation rules", "validation constraints" or "check routines", that check for correctness, meaningfulness, and security of data that are input to the system."</font></div><br><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Validition is an active process that verifies data that has <i>already</i> been input into the system.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">It is more than the passive use of controls that prevent the entry of invalid data into the system.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Anyway...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"></morning grumble></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Mark</div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2015 at 10:11, Christopher Jansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Christopher.Jansen@sjc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">Christopher.Jansen@sjc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">For option B<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If you group all radio buttons together then only on option could be selected. This is not ranking, just picking an option…
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If you group radio buttons horizontally then you could pick all ones for each type of music.. not a valid option as it does not rank.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If you group radio buttons vertically then you could choose 1, 2,3, 4 for a single type of music… also not a valid option as it done
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">B is the best answer out of all of them… but still a very poor validation technique.. and not one I would use on a website for ranking.
Ranking may be better served with a drag and drop scenario… or some fancy Java script and some drop down lists…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
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<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 IT Apps] 2015 IT Post Mortems - ITA and SD<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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