https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42775
--- Comment #15 from Thomas David Baker <bak...@gmail.com> --- There was a UX review of this bug done by Jared Zimmerman <jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org>. He said: "You have great timing, we're currently working on a project to clean up forms throughout mediawiki. While the designs are still in-progress I'll share with your our ideas thus far about required fields. In many places where complex forms exist there are more required fields than optional ones, so the pattern that we're using is that the primary action button is in a disabled state until all required fields are filled, and optional fields have helper text displaying that they are optional. Additionally for some forms we're using in-line validation to help users confirm that the text entered conforms to the formats or content needed. We are not however using the form validation simply as a "you've completed this step" indicator, as it could get very noisy very quickly. Zero state https://www.dropbox.com/s/1xyw2nq38umm9qx/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-20%20at%209.25.57%20AM.png Partially filled and validated https://www.dropbox.com/s/p419filfq1zt7cq/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-20%20at%209.26.54%20AM.png error state https://www.dropbox.com/s/t2en4yliahmnpkg/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-20%20at%209.27.04%20AM.png In most cases not allowing the user to attempt to submit forms with missing information will keep them from ever getting into the form error state from the bug your working on." This was in June 2013. So it seems that this patch is unwanted as it shores up what is fundamentally undesirable behavior. I'm afraid I haven't done any work on a better version as described above. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
