On Sep 5, 2007, at 11:20 AM, tedd wrote:

Just keep the user entering data until the data is correct, then submit the form via ajax or as one normally would via a form submit.

So, I don't see the ajax advantage here.

The problem with what you're describing is that all your form validation code (business logic) is deployed to the browser as javascript. For serious applications, the server cannot rely on the client to take care of things like validation, because they can easily be bypassed.

What ajax allows you to do is keep the heavy lifting business logic on the server (where it belongs), but have your web page change it's own state without having to ask the server to redraw an entire document every time it needs some new information, or a calculation performed.

For example: you could authenticate a user without having to refresh the page. There is no way to do that without asking the server to verify credentials. Ajax (or some other kind of remoting) is required if you want to avoid a page refresh.

-- Dell

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