Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 24822 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2003 20:13:40 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 15 Nov 2003 20:13:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 6534 invoked by uid 500); 15 Nov 2003 20:13:28 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 6268 invoked by uid 500); 15 Nov 2003 20:13:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 6255 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2003 20:13:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sarek.skynet.be) (195.238.3.230) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 15 Nov 2003 20:13:26 -0000 Received: from denayer.com (40-80.240.81.adsl.skynet.be [81.240.80.40]) by sarek.skynet.be (8.12.9/8.12.9/Skynet-OUT-2.21) with ESMTP id hAFKDSfe026613 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:13:29 +0100 (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <3FB68800.9060504@denayer.com> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:09:36 +0100 From: Wouter Denayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [validator] client side validation: alternative for alert()? References: <20031110144252.62366.qmail@web20702.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031110144252.62366.qmail@web20702.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030212) (sarek.skynet.be) X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N what about changing the client code that is shipped to add an extension point so that this functionality can easiliy be added? In my case I just need Explorer support so that is easily done... Wouter in a way that allows people to add this functionality if they wanted to, without making structure changes to the code. An extension point David Graham wrote: >--- Wouter Denayer wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>Currently with client side validation, when there is an error an alert() >> >>popup box is used to signal this to the user. By using client side DHTML >> >>we could get pretty much the same behavior as you get when going to the >>server and coming back, i.e. all messages grouped together above the >>form + each message repeated close to the offending field. Has there >>been any thought of implementing this functionality in validator? >> >> > >No, probably because DHTML is difficult to implement for all browsers. I >agree that DHTML is pretty neat but it's way too time consuming to >maintain cross browser code. > >David > > > >>regards, >> >>Wouter Denayer >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org >>For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org >> >> >> > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard >http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org