{"id":26,"date":"2006-11-08T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2006-11-08T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T05:19:00","slug":"do-your-error-messages-to-users-lie-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/do-your-error-messages-to-users-lie-often\/","title":{"rendered":"Do your error messages to users lie often?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enter a search into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelocity.com\/?\">Travelocity.com<\/a> and search for a ticket from Bangkok (BKK) to New Delhi (DEL).<\/p>\n<p>Here is what you are told:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_u6arNBKw6UY\/RlOorEIMpRI\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/_RTe_20OngQ\/s1600-h\/travelocity.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_u6arNBKw6UY\/RlOorEIMpRI\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/_RTe_20OngQ\/s400\/travelocity.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067579463517906194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=16955363&amp;postID=116304983180480758\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_u6arNBKw6UY\/RlOmUkIMpQI\/AAAAAAAAAEk\/ghYt6Uo30ig\/s1600-h\/travelocity.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067576877947593986\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What they might have said instead:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     Your search may have been beyond our comprehension and we are really really sorry about how we allow our software developers to lie in the error messages to the end users to leave you in a perpetually confused and exasperated state while using our programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enter a search into Travelocity.com and search for a ticket from Bangkok (BKK) to New Delhi (DEL). Here is what you are told: What they might have said instead: Your search may have been beyond our comprehension and we are really really sorry about how we allow our software developers to lie in the error [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userharmony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}