Posted by Arne on 11/05/05 22:21

Once upon a time *brucie* wrote:

> In post <news:11mq3fdo60tko93@corp.supernews.com>, Doug said:
>
> [rearranged, please don't toppost]
>
>>> what you want is a <evil>popup</evil> with the width and height
>>> specified but many people use various means to block them.
>>>
>>> without knowing what you really want one for i can only
>>> recommend against it because its evil and put you on my "people
>>> not to be saved" list when armageddon arrives.
>
>> I guarantee it has no evil intent.
>
> sure, thats what they all say.
>
>> All I want it for is to throw up a message in a pop-up (another
>> page) that tells the user something like "fill in the cotton
>> picken edit box." just like in the desktop world of programming.
>
> hmmmmm... i think this would be more appropriate:
>
> Javascript form validation – doing it right
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/formval.html
>
> but don't forget you still need to validate server side.

What happened here? The encoding change from ISO-8859-1 to
"Traditional Chinese (Big5)" for no reason at all.
Is it me or is it you? :)

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/Arne
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