Not having proper server side validation is one of the 7 deadly sins isn't it?
Looking at the latest published W3C statistics you would educate a guess of about 10% of browsers not having JS enabled on them, that's a fairly hefty chunk. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 April 2007 16:50 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Client-side validation or Server-side Validation? > Not exactly. What I mean is that I will let standard error messages > through, like > "invalid datatype" for an invalid date from the database driver, or > "null values not allowed", etc... > With client side validation, I will make some more user friendly phrase. But what about, as already mentioned, somebody browsing with Javascript turn off ( ... and there seems to be a good many of those folks)? Look at something as simple as a *required* email address field. With javascript off - you still need to be able to give them an error or kick them back to the form to make them fill it out, right? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275389 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
