Mail List Etiquette [Was: comment on DOM 3 Events LC #2]

Daniel - as one of the moderators of www-dom, please note some members 
find your tone below unacceptable. Also, I am not aware of a public 
reference for the e-mail you quoted from Mounir Lamouri (please provide 
a link to Mounir's e-mail).

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-Regards, Art Barstow


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Fwd: comment on DOM 3 Events LC #2 on WebApps WG's request
Resent-Date: 	Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:37:46 +0000
Resent-From: 	<www-dom@w3.org>
Date: 	Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:37:07 +0200
From: 	ext Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
To: 	<www-dom@w3.org>



Le 16/06/11 12:17, Mounir Lamouri a écrit :

>  Generally speaking, I think it's too soon to add these kind of events:
>  HTML5 Forms implementations are young and I still haven't see one
>  website using it.

Really a bad argument. Our specs are supposed to pave the future, not
stabilize what's already here.

>  In addition, I do not think it would be a good idea to have an event
>  being sent when an element becomes valid or invalid: I do not see any
>  good use case (wrt UX) that wouldn't work with the input or change
>  events. What use cases do you have in mind?

That's a joke I presume ???

A form willing to cancel the transaction after three failed attempts to
enter something valid ? A form willing to emit a XHR if a field goes
off-range or invalid ? There are _tons_ of use case.

>  Furthermore, for in-range and out-of-range, I do not believe a good
>  implementation should allow the user to enter an out of range value so
>  such an event might be useless. Even if, I don't see how invalid/valid
>  events wouldn't fulfill the hypothetical use cases of those two.

A "good" implementation ?!?!? Wow. Suppose you have a form with an
email field. That field's value is populated BY SCRIPT just because
you have a password helper. Oh, your bad, the data in your passwd
helper is wrong, you mistyped your email, forgot a period. Dang, the
form field is invalid.

Mounir, this is not an ideal world, the browser is not the only
user-side component of the web, and the user is not the only one
filling up form fields. Wake up, please.

</Daniel>

Received on Thursday, 16 June 2011 12:55:06 UTC