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Monday 10 December 2007 5:40:08 pm
I've been working with dojo (http://dojotoolkit.org/) for about a month and a half, and I really like it. I think it would integrate well into the attribute_view_gui templates, probably as an extension. The value would be in using dojo to handle client-side validation to offload the server. Here's a sample:
<div class="element">
<label for="sFirstname">First name</label>
<input type="text" name="sFirstname" id="sFirstname"
value="First"
dojoType="dijit.form.ValidationTextBox"
regExp="[A-Za-z\ ]{1,20}"
promptMessage="First name"
errorMessage="The first name is from 1 to 20 characters"
invalidMessage="Please enter 1 to 20 characters"
maxlength="20" />
</div>
dojo adds attributes to the input tag, and with a fair amount of javascript (which can be cached by the browser), does a great job with validation, and helping the user enter the data correctly. To test the data in the above input, the following javascript could be used:
sF=dojo.ById('sFirstname');
if (!sF.isValid())
alert(sF.errorMessage);
dojo is available on AOL's CDN. * Code may have errors
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