Looking for tips or opinions on the following:
I'd like an error handling feature similar to the basic feature in Struts
(using the error tag) except that it pops up a new browser window with the
messages in it. This would allow me to keep my forms visually inviolate,
rather than being "bumped" down or across the window because of the inserted
messages. I could also apply a bit of formatting like an HTML list.
I want a separate browser window so the user can jump back & forth between
windows to correct or refer to one error at a time. It would be a
"dumbed-down" window that would be populated on load directly from the
JavaScript generated in the "parent" window by the new tag (only if errors
have occurred, of course).
I'm not worried about the proliferation of these windows since the
JavaScript can keep using the same window each time errors occur. I also
suspect that you can rig the "parent" window to snuff the "child" window
upon submission.
So, does anyone have a suggestion on whether this would be a reasonable
effort?
Does Struts provide anything that would make this task easier to do (or even
redundant)?
Is this worth pursuing as possibly a new Struts tag? That might complicate
things a bit but if anyone finds it useful I'd be willing to go for it.
Thanks in advance.
- Mark.
