9 items tagged “forms”
2018
react-jsonschema-form. Exciting library from the Mozilla Services team: given a JSON Schema definition, react-jsonschema-form can produce a cleanly designed React-powered form for adding and editing data that matches that schema. Includes support for adding multiple items in a nested array, re-ordering them, custom form widgets and more. # 23rd April 2018, 9:38 pm
2010
Instapaper requiring email and passwords for new accounts. Instapaper are changing from their novel “enter a username or email address, only enter a password if you really want one” registration scheme to a more traditional email and password required model. Messing with registration forms is a risky business—in this case, the non-obvious support issues that resulted were a net negative. # 15th December 2010, 8:35 pm
2009
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
2008
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
2007
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
2006
Form Hijack (via) Neat unobtrusive JavaScript trick—use document.onclick to catch events before page has loaded. # 21st March 2006, 10:43 am