On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Mark Galbreath wrote:
> You speak truth!
>
> But the original query was (paraphrased): "How do I insure numerical
> input for a user's age in the form's "age" field. This is clearly a
> job for JavaScript. And as for "users having JavaScript turned
> off?" Who the hell turns JavaScript off? It's on by default in
[ ... ]
Anyone who's sick of popup windows? Especially when they hang/crash
the browser?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher K. St. John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 4:50 PM
> Subject: Re: How can I catch an JSP error ????
>
>
> > Mark Galbreath wrote:
> > >
> > > Everyone (beginning with me) is telling him to use JavaScript. He
> > > says (privately to me) that his boss insists that validation take
> > > place on the server (typical boss - probably from Marketing).
> > >
> >
> > Even if you use Javascript to validate on the client side,
> > you still have to re-validate on the server-side. Client
> > side validation just speeds up feedback, it doesn't
> > guarantee clean data. (Eg, the user has Javascript turned
> > off, the user posts the data using a tool other than a web
> > browser, etc, etc, etc)
> >
>
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
___________________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".
Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
