*** Original post on bio 378 at 2010-03-12 11:08:00 UTC *** Right now it's possible to add completely wrong nicknames in the "Add buddy" dialog and similar for new accounts on the account wizard as well. Suggestion: add a way to tell whether a nickname is valid on a certain protocol or not. Maybe by requiring another method on protocol extensions that returns whether a passed string is a valid nickname or not.

*** Original post on bio 378 by Chris Hills <chaz AT chaz6.com> at 2010-03-12 11:45:08 UTC *** My suggestion is to keep the "Add buddy" dialog open until either the user clicks cancel, or the buddy name is accepted by the server. If the user attempts to add a buddy that is rejected, the dialog could be updated to show a message (for example, "The buddy could not be added because [reason]"), with the response from the server.

*** Original post on bio 378 at 2010-10-10 21:39:19 UTC *** This would possibly also be useful for a purpleIPref of the string type (which should essentially be the same as the nicknames/usernames?) (To allow for validation of any string preference, i.e. server/hostname, channel names, etc.)

*** Original post on bio 378 at 2010-12-14 18:10:45 UTC *** This doesn't block my JS-IRC work, it would just be nice to have.

Duping to bug 1176115 since that has a patch.