On 2/12/10 9:23 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Aryeh Gregor<[email protected]> wrote:
Do you know of any actual authors who would want to use
validationMessage? If there are any authors here who would want to
use the validation API with their own UI, would you want to use
validationMessage or write your own messages? I wouldn't be likely to
write my own UI at all, so I'm not the best person to have an opinion
here.
When I use a jQuery validation plugin for my forms today, I pretty
much always rely on the default error message that the library
provides. It's rare for me to override it; I typically only provide
messages when I'm specifying a custom validation that doesn't have a
message (as the default error message for a custom validation rule is
far too generic).
So yes, I'd use validationMessage in my own UI. It's easier, as it
lets me be completely agnostic about the actual error, and just plug
in whatever the error is into my custom UI.
I also use a jQuery validation plugin at work--but have a mixture of
default and custom errors--depending on what language the "business" is
testing that week. Either way, I do think that validationMessage is
absolutely useful. In the cases where I might need to change the
message, I'm OK with a mixture of setCustomValidity and using the title
attribute in conjuction with the pattern attribute to describe what went
wrong (which is how Opera currently works, at least).
Mike
