Tested it on the incubator, looks good (apart from the fact that the messages & colors you choosed are a bit rough to the eye and to the user ;-)
This could be quite handy to use on plenty of other forms in XWiki. How easy will it be to add to any of our numerous object-creation input fields (like create page, create blog post, new applications, basically any field we could think of)? +1 for me, Guillaume On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear devs, > > I propose we bundle the "validation as you type" livevalidation.js > library [1] in XWiki, and use it to improve user experience on several > forms in XWiki Enterprise (I can think of registration form, export wiki > form, page creation panel, etc.) There are several advantages I see in > livevalidation compared to the other libraries I took a glance at : > > * It's small (12Kb minified) > * It does not have any dependency (but there is version based on > prototype available, too) > * It is not intrusive. No need to modify the html structure or to add > css classes to input fields to add validation. > * It has an nice feature which allows you to precise the delay after > which the validation should occur once the user stopped typing > > If you want to see it "live" in XWiki, I added some basic presence, > password confirm and email validation on the register form on > http://incubator.myxwiki.org > > CSS-class based validation seems to be in some sort of fashion, though > I'm personally not very convince we can express all our validation using > only class names (sounds intricate to do cross-field validation for > example, or to validate against a custom regular expression), and for us > it is not really an option right now, since we would need to make > modifications in the core of XWiki for object fields displayer to add > the proper class names to the inputs when calling APIs like $doc.display > (or do it in javascript, but the CSS-based becomes pointless then). > Last, if we really want class based validation, I believe building it > with prototype and livevalidation would be very easy. > > Here are the other alternative I looked at rapidly: > > * JS-Validate [2] 67 Kb, requires prototype + scriptaculous, CSS-based , > licence? > * really-easy-field-validation [3] requires prototype, CSS + JS based, > MIT licence > * wForms [4] 81Kb minified, CSS-based , LGPL > > Better alternatives you would see? > > Otherwise, my +1 for livevalidation, > > Regards, > Jerome. > > [1] http://www.livevalidation.com/ > [2] http://www.jsvalidate.com/ > [3] http://tetlaw.id.au/view/javascript/really-easy-field-validation > [4] http://code.google.com/p/wforms/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
