Hi Rick, I can only speak from my personal experience.
The main site I work on sells plus-size clothing for ladies. When I first put up our new CF ecommerce site, we were getting several calls a day from angry ladies who couldn't add a product to their shopping bag. I had foolishly made the "Add to Bag" button dependent on an onClick event, which obviously didn't work if their javascript was disabled. I'm pretty sure these ladies were not advanced users! All I can think is that their scripting had been disabled on their browser or somewhere up the chain by a tech guy at their office (most people shop from work). At any rate, you never know who will have javascript enabled/disabled, but I would think advanced users would be understanding of any security issues, and have javascript enabled because they feel confident about handling any security problems. -- Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Faircloth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:35 AM Subject: RE: Client-side validation or Server-side Validation? > Josh, > > You refer to customers who don't have javascript enabled > as "javascript-challenged." Since not using javascript would > take some knowledge and tinkering, wouldn't it be more likely > that those who don't use javascript are advanced users and > just simply choosing not to use javascript? > > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Nathanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:09 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Client-side validation or Server-side Validation? > >> How bad would it be to make having javascript turned on *REQUIRED* >> before visotors can view certain content (forms)? > > This all depends your intended audience, and the purpose of your website. > > I run a mission-critical eCommerce site, so we have to make sure our > javascript-challenged customers can still buy stuff. We still use > javascript validation for those who have JS enabled, but saying "you must > have javascript enabled to use this form" is simply not an option in this > scenario. > > -- Josh > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275415 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
