[TRINIDAD-94] Inline JS validation fails silently when no location is available for a message

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.1-core
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.2-core
• Component/s: Components
• Assignee: Danny Robinson
• Reporter: Adam Winer
• Created: 10/Jul/07 05:10
• Updated: 15/Aug/07 08:18
• Resolved: 25/Jul/07 20:38

Description

In the following Facelets example:

<tr:document xmlns:tr="http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad">
<tr:form>
<tr:messages />
<tr:inputText required="true" simple="true"/>
<tr:commandLink text="foo"/>
</tr:form>
</tr:document>

... clicking the link will silently fail until a value is entered. If simple="false", you see the error message
appear. This is because the inline JS validation code just drops a message when there is no target
to display it.

We should do one of:
1. show these messages as JS alerts
2. show these messages in some other block of content,
picked perhaps arbitrarily (in tr:messages by default,
otherwise at the head of the page?)
3. blow off client-side validation altogether for those elements