Re: Strategy for user input instructions?
Re: Strategy for user input instructions?
- Subject: Re: Strategy for user input instructions?
- From: Ramsey Gurley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:58:22 -0400
Hi Miguel,
I'm sorry... I wasn't very clear. Let me use an example:
Let's say I have a create account page. Every user needs to create a
password. I want to instruct the user that the account password must
be of a minimum length or contain certain characters.
My validateKey methods enforce this requirement and reports errors to
the user. What I want to do is present those requirements to the user
before the input is made.
So, instead of waiting for the user to make a mistake and reporting
their errors through validateKey() ... is there something like
inputInstructionsForKey() to create a localized instruction to display
the input requirements to the user before the input is ever made? I
don't think it would be difficult to roll my own version of this, but
it seems to me that this would be such a common requirement that it
would have been done before.
Ramsey
On Oct 19, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Miguel Arroz wrote:
Hi!
What exactly do you mean by "input instructions"?
Yours
Miguel Arroz
On 2008/10/19, at 22:13, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've been giving a lot of thought to user input instructions for
the past couple of days. WebObjects has a really awesome input
validation system, so it seems rather odd to me that there doesn't
appear to be any sort of analogous system for providing user input
instructions. I'm wondering what everyone else is doing in this
case. Are you guys just hardcoding this info into your page
templates? Is there some kind of inputInfoForKey(key) method I'm
overlooking somewhere? It seems like this would be a pretty common
requirement.
Thanks everyone!
Ramsey
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