I normally find sign-up forms incredibly irritating-- but Yahoo's is light years beyond any others I've seen: https://edit.yahoo.com/registration?.intl=us&new=1
My concern about javascript-driven validation (either entirely on the client side, or AJAXified) is that it will lead to laziness in developing validation routines in the back-end process that your browser POSTs the data to. *** naive developer: "the form already validated itself-- I should be able to trust its contents!" *** paranoid devleper: "what if they have javascript turned off, and their ZIP code happens to be 'DROP TABLE users' ... ?" On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Alexander Baxevanis < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would highlight the field that fails validation and I'd put the > following message next to it: > > "This doesn't look like a [first name|last name|city]. Maybe you made > a spelling mistake?" > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
