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Re: What's missing from HTML forms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Fri Sep 30 03:19:16 1994
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 08:15:27 +0100
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From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
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On Fri, 30 Sep 1994, Richard Everman wrote:
> What's missing from HTML forms?
>
> 1 -- pressing a (tab?) key to move from current field to next field
> (or is that a client issue???)
Totally a client issue. Some clients do this correctly.
> 2 -- valid an entry (FAVLT: from a very large table) for correctness
>From a table in the HTML file? Ack. I'd support type checking, along the
lines of only allowing certain types of characters to be typed in (possibly a
regular expression?) or a valid file name for upload-a-file when that becomes
popular. Those are the only checks that should be done by the client, that
*could* be done, short of smart forms that are really programs in our
much-debated scripting language. But those would be quite nice, yes.
Brian
