Curious. I disabled javascript in IE 5.5
Out of the limited scripting I use on my site, the navigate to first entry
field nolonger works, but the onchange() event seems to be firing still...
Go figure.
"Ron Brogden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> At 06:27 PM 2/23/2001 -0300, you wrote:
> >Remember, php is server side while JavaScript is client side. You can't
use
> >php client side. You can use some client side events to call php scripts
> >which will run on the server and send data to the browser. Events are
client
> >side, so try JavaScript you'll enjoy it too.
>
> Also keep in mind that Javascript should *never* be relied upon for input
> validation.
>
> It is trivial to disable Javascript on the client side (and there are very
> good reasons for doing so, drop by www.securityfocus.com sometime for
> reasons why) and you cannot trust any data that comes from the end user.
I
> personally would never recommend Javascript "crippling" your site - it
> should run perfectly without it since support varies from browser to
> browser (not everyone uses the latest version of IE) and you have no
> guarantee that it will be enabled client side at all. That's not even
> getting into people building URLs by hand for "kicks". Since you have to
> perform input validation server side anyway, this makes Javascript pretty
> much useless for this purpose.
>
> Javascript is really only useful for display effects that do not affect
> accessibility which means they should be avoided most of the time just
like
> Macromedia Flash, Quicktime, etc. unless you are 100% sure your audience
> meets your site's requirements exactly.
>
> All IMHO of course.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron
>
>
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