forms goals

forms goals


What is the goal of forms UI?
My thoughts say that we should have validation interface as part of
this whole effort. This should be standard to the UI rather than
external. At minimum there should be a standard validation interface.
In addition to this there should be formatting for standard web form
elements as we know them. (masking if you prefer)
1. This makes the picture complete. (Without this it's only a partial
UI for forms and partial solutions may not be far sighted enough to be
compatible. This would mean we would have many sights built around
jquery that would have to scrap code for another solution we or
someone else makes. Also this would be VERY important because things
like the grid will use / rather reuse/ these components in the grid.
2. Other components like slider and upload may need some sort of
validation interface also. (Though I do not know how to validate
anything on the upload for sure.)
3. External .Net, CF, PHP, JSP libraries that mix jQuery for the
browser need a constant interface to generate compliant code.
John Farrar
P.S.
I have done a body of private work in this area that could be
contributed... but this is not something that can be done by me alone
at this point.