Re: Re: HTML_QuickForm DHTML client rules and SoftRequired rule

On 3/27/06, Maarten Bremer <maarten@xolphin.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > > Again, this is more of a question of opinion. When would you like the > > error checking to happen? If not onBlur or onKeyUp, the only > > possibility left is onSubmit (unless you want to do it onMouseOver or > > onMouseOut, which I doubt). If you leave validation to onSubmit then > > you can have the other problems I've outlined. IMHO it's better to at > > least have the onBlur as it lets the user know, right after they've > > filled out the form, that they need to fix something. > > IMHO the behaviour for the e-mail element in your example is wrong. When > I want to input my e-mail address in the first field, and just type in > the first letter, it turns red indicating an error. At that point I > didn't make an error, I was just not finished typing. > > In my opinion it should indicate an error if the user is creating an > error. So it shouldn't show an error if the user is still typing an > e-mail address, but it should show it on the onBlur when it isn't > finished yet. The way it is now, is that a customer thinks after typing > the first char that he did something wrong, while he actually didn't. > > I hope you guys follow me on this :). > Yep, makes sense. I've commented out the onKeyUp event setting for now since this seems to cause more problems that it fixes. -- Justin Patrin