7 items tagged “forms”
Styling buttons to look like links. Nat has a neat trick for styling submit buttons to look like regular links—so there’s absolutely no excuse for using a “delete” link when you should be using a POST request.
10th June 2009, 2:11 am
newforms-admin branch has been merged into trunk. Congrats to Brian Rosner for the merge. django.newforms has been renamed to django.forms as well—1.0 grows ever closer.
20th July 2008, 11:17 pm
Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms. I didn’t know you could do this: create a regular HTML form that gives people permission to upload direct to your own S3 bucket, using a signed JSON policy statement in a hidden form field to prevent third parties from abusing your S3 account.
27th June 2008, 12:11 pm
Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms. Fascinating results from an eye tracking study on the placement of “Submit” and “Cancel” buttons—one layout was a whole six seconds slower than the others. Luke Wroblewski’s “Web Form Design Best Practices” book looks like it will be excellent.
4th September 2007, 2:52 am
Dynamic Help in Web Forms. Luke Wroblewski catalogues patterns for providing contextual help.
7th August 2007, 4:01 pm
Personal names around the world. I’ve always felt slightly uncomfortable about firstname/lastname fields in forms. Now I know why.
19th July 2007, 12:54 pm
Form Hijack (via) Neat unobtrusive JavaScript trick—use document.onclick to catch events before page has loaded.
21st March 2006, 10:43 am