Posted by dorayme on 11/21/77 11:33

> From: Mark Parnell <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au>
>
> In our last episode, dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> pronounced to
> alt.html:
>
>> I like this Poli technique of immediate feedback
>> (http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/formval.html).
>
> I got some useful ideas from that too.
>
>> has anyone used such a technique or is there any site
>> that uses it and from which it is simpler to adapt to ones own
>> forms or is there any site that is geared to make it easy to
>> adapt.
>
> I'm in the process of writing something similar, that would be more
> portable. At this stage it only checks for required fields.
>
> It's only for an internal project at this stage, but I could probably
> make it available to you. Note that I'm only new to Javascript, so it's
> probably not the epitome of good code, but it works. ;-)
>


Like to add: the most prominent feature that attracts me to the
Poley technique is the ability for immediate feedback on a
mistake after /leaving a field/ and not having to wait till
after the submit button is pressed.

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dorayme

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