[Sigia-l] "Who Really Turns Off JavaScript?"

[Skot Nelson]

On Nov-7-2005, at 4:06 PM, Davezilla wrote:

> J2EE developers who insist on front-end
> validation for some parts of the form, and back end for the others.

I've never understood this though. If you're going to pass a form  
through a server side script for SOME verification, why not just do  
all the verifications back there? Doing this means you can present  
all error messages in a single, consistent format.

It does have the obvious disadvantage of requiring the user to wait  
for all error feedback, and risk hitting them with a large number of  
errors on a form simultaneously. I think I'd choose consistency of  
presentation as my primary goal though.
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