- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:44:58 +0300
On Oct 9, 2006, at 01:32, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > As UAs become more sophisticated, they can analyze the pattern > attribute and present more context-sensitive error messages than > any such attribute could. For example: > * "410 is too much; this number must be 300 or less." > * "178 is too small; this number must be 200 or more." > * "This field must start with a letter." > > UAs can also localize these error messages much more extensively > than any Web site could (which will be even more of a benefit when > the Web site is not in your preferred language). No offense intended, but "As UAs become more sophisticated, they can analyze??" generally indicates a problem. I believe that the above can work for min and max. However, expecting user-friendly natural language descriptions of regular expressions (in multiple natural languages!) to emerge "as UAs become more sophisticated" is in the realm of expecting future AI-complete magic software to fix things. In general, that's not a good assumption to make. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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