Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by chx 4679 days ago
Oh my god, how I hate forms that reset themselves over an error! It's newsletter subscriptions... or the misc textarea... or something... that gets lost when I enter a Canadian post code with the space in the middle. Or without the space in the middle. Both have triggered errors :(

Why can't you people just use Drupal which has a forms system that I have contributed to a lot and it handles rebuilds like this with ease :) ?

2 comments

I was with you, and was about to upvote, until I saw your "solution" to forms resetting themselves on error was to use Drupal....
Because drupal does a lot of other things "interestingly", for example account name and email-validation?
What's so bad about account name an email validation in Drupal? It's one of the few apps/CMS/frameworks that get it right and allow people to use their real name instead of forcing them to come up with some poor ASCII-only string to represent them.