Working towards Usable Forms on the World Wide Web: Optimizing Date Entry Input Fields

Table 4

Performance overview of the six versions.

	Avoid wrong format	Avoid wrong date	Time efficiency	User satisfaction
Version 1 (separate)	0	+	0	0
Version 2 (drop-down)	+	+	−	0
Version 3 (left)	0	+	+	+
Version 4 (inside, permanent)	0	+	0	−
Version 5 (inside)	−	+	+	+
Version 6 (calendar)	+	−	−	0