Christophe wrote: > Steven D'Aprano a écrit : > >>By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik >>Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for "validating" >>email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it >>twice. That will protect against simple typos and input errors. > > > I hate that thing. When I see that, I type my email once and copy/paste > into the second edit box. This is useless AND annoying at the same time.
Probably safe to say it's a little less useful when the text field contents are visible, but the classic validator for hidden fields. It might surprise you to realise that not everyone in the world is a touch typist, and for them (since they are often looking at the keyboard rather than the screen) it's not an unreasonable validator. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
