I was researching an article for PortaBlogger and came across this web form validation/confirmation mechanism on the Opera Community site:
As the form fields are filled in, the green check icon appears for a valid entry - in real time. Here’s an example - I entered the first four letters (Andr) of my desired username (AndrewBoyd), and saw this:
Isn’t that cool? I don’t have to fill out the whole form then wait for 30 seconds while it decides whether my state should be Alabama or ACT before it tells me that I need to choose another user ID. Not only that, it suggests alternates on the fly without getting in the way.
I’m working on a project with Matthew Hodgson at the moment where we’re having to look at intelligent data entry validation mechanisms, so this is very timely.
I can’t fault it - if you would, go to the Opera Community site and have a play with it - if you can find a hole in this as the friendliest form validation ever, please let me know.
Hi, I’m reading you via the Australian Blogs Community at Bumpzee, on the RSS feed. Just dropping by to welcome you to the Australian Blogs Community, and to let you know I have just updated the Australian Blogs Community HTML links list file to include your blog, if you want to put it on your blog you can get a copy of it here -
http://fraudstars.info/~snoskred/aussieatoz.txt - A to Z
http://fraudstars.info/~snoskred/images/title.jpg - Z to A (The down-under version!)
The list is updated weekly to include new blogs.
In case you didn’t know, anytime you post the first 250 characters go out on the RSS feed, so I’ll be reading more from you soon.
and I’ve updated my sidebar to the new list, so I’m linking to you now. I also mention you on Sunday in my weekly wrap up post. 
Once again, Welcome to the Australian Blogs Community!
If you have added more than one blog, you’ll get this more than once, just so I can be sure I didn’t miss anyone out.
Snoskred -
http://www.snoskred.org/
Thanks Snoskred,
you are a champion
It is hard to put a price on this kind of community building - if you ever need a hand, give me a shout.
Best regards, Andrew