Re: [Kimchi-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Implement frontend code to edit MAC address of a guest

I don't like the JavaScript filter/autocomplete/validation/wizard feature here. In my opinion, it gets more in the user's way than helps them: - There's no indication that the characters ":" will be added automatically. - I can't type the character ":" (e.g. try typing "AA" and then ":"; the character ":" won't be displayed, but it should, because it is the expected character there; the user might keep pressing ":" a lot of times until they realize that the character will be appended when they start typing the rest of the MAC address). - I can't type most of the useful keyboard combinations I have available: Home, End, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+C, Shift+Ctrl+End, etc. This patch only allows a small set of keys to be pressed. There's no reason I shouldn't type them. - It's inconsistent with all the other form fields on Kimchi. A much better approach here would be to let the user type whatever they want and validate the input when the user clicks the floppy disk button. If something is wrong, a nice message like "you need to enter the MAC address in such and such format" can be displayed, just like Kimchi does in every form. On 11-05-2015 14:19, Jose Ricardo Ziviani wrote: