[whatwg] validationMessage

On 2/12/10 9:23 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Aryeh Gregor<Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Do you know of any actual authors who would want to use
>> validationMessage?  If there are any authors here who would want to
>> use the validation API with their own UI, would you want to use
>> validationMessage or write your own messages?  I wouldn't be likely to
>> write my own UI at all, so I'm not the best person to have an opinion
>> here.
>>      
> When I use a jQuery validation plugin for my forms today, I pretty
> much always rely on the default error message that the library
> provides.  It's rare for me to override it; I typically only provide
> messages when I'm specifying a custom validation that doesn't have a
> message (as the default error message for a custom validation rule is
> far too generic).
>
> So yes, I'd use validationMessage in my own UI.  It's easier, as it
> lets me be completely agnostic about the actual error, and just plug
> in whatever the error is into my custom UI.
>    
I also use a jQuery validation plugin at work--but have a mixture of 
default and custom errors--depending on what language the "business" is 
testing that week. Either way, I do think that validationMessage is 
absolutely useful. In the cases where I might need to change the 
message, I'm OK with a mixture of setCustomValidity and using the title 
attribute in conjuction with the pattern attribute to describe what went 
wrong (which is how Opera currently works, at least).

Mike

Received on Saturday, 13 February 2010 13:05:34 UTC