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

[Todd Warfel]

With the exception that it saves a round trip to the server. Some items
(e.g. formatting, required fields) can be done very effectively using JS,
then further validated on the server side.

On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Timothy Karsjens wrote:


Using JavaScript to even validate a form is a ridiculous waste of time if
you are building a real application. Why? The form data is going to be
validated AGAIN on the back-end anyway. Using JavaScript to do anything of
importance in an application is just bad, in my opinion. There are too many
cases (15%!!!) that would keep me up at night.


Cheers!

Todd R. Warfel
Partner, Design & Usability Specialist
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