[jQuery] Re: (validate) email validator
Right, this is sort of a long debate, which I see pop up on mailing lists for email servers. In the end, I think you need to go by the standards. Just because hotmail breaks the rules, does not mean you want to punish some other user who does not use hotmail, just because they use a character in their email address that hotmail does not. On Sep 14, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Sean McKenna wrote: While technically this is correct, a more restrictive approach might be preferable because some email services (hotmail for one) will not send to an email address using anything other than alphanumerics, dots, hyphens, and underscores. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
[jQuery] Re: (validate) email validator
Yep. The goal here is to indicate to the user that he mistyped his address. For that to work reliably, the validation must accept all valid addresses, not just those that feel more valid then others. Jörn On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote: Right, this is sort of a long debate, which I see pop up on mailing lists for email servers. In the end, I think you need to go by the standards. Just because hotmail breaks the rules, does not mean you want to punish some other user who does not use hotmail, just because they use a character in their email address that hotmail does not. On Sep 14, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Sean McKenna wrote: While technically this is correct, a more restrictive approach might be preferable because some email services (hotmail for one) will not send to an email address using anything other than alphanumerics, dots, hyphens, and underscores. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
[jQuery] Re: (validate) email validator
The one letter for tld is probably a bug. The characters you list are legal to the left if the last @ sign. -- Scott Iphone says hello. On Sep 14, 2009, at 10:59 AM, mattso matthieu.larc...@gmail.com wrote: How come the validator for emails only needs one letter for the tld and allows non valid characters like / or * ?
[jQuery] Re: (validate) email validator
While technically this is correct, a more restrictive approach might be preferable because some email services (hotmail for one) will not send to an email address using anything other than alphanumerics, dots, hyphens, and underscores. On Sep 14, 11:02 am, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote: The one letter for tld is probably a bug. The characters you list are legal to the left if the last @ sign. -- Scott Iphone says hello. On Sep 14, 2009, at 10:59 AM, mattso matthieu.larc...@gmail.com wrote: How come the validator for emails only needs one letter for the tld and allows non valid characters like / or * ?
