[lnanek2]

One place I've seen a lot of web developers really screw up on this when they try to write something for mobile, they make tons of fields required that they really don't need. Meanwhile people really hate typing and entering stuff on mobile and it is really tough on the users. So much so that many just ditch. I guess novice developers just see they can mark things required in some library trivially, so they do so without thinking through the consequences.

[scarecrowbob]

Well, while I am all for pushing back on bad design and I'm all for showing folks how many people abandon their forms, it's probably not so much that novice folks think it's okay to mark everything required because it's easy to do with a library... what is easy for novice folks to do is mark everything required because your boss/director/client demands that it be done.