heck as long as you implicity trust your users to give you clean data and they'll never try to hack your server, well then yeah, I think client side only is good. To me, this pertains to the apps that my mom and I use....everything else uses server side or both.
:) On 4/14/07, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok.... > > So I've been getting into jQuery a lot lately. And being able to > do some of the user enhancements has been great. > > I've also begun, as one of those user enhancements, to use > client-side validation. Not for login's, but for mortgage calculators, > property search request forms, etc. Not critical, but important. > > But now that I've started down the client-side validation road, I hear > from passersby, "No! You should always validate server-side or both!" > > (I did experiment with jQuery to use Ajax to validate server-side with CF, > but couldn't quite pull it off, so for a mortgage calculator, I went totally > client-side just to get the project moving again...) > > But, apart from the "some users don't have Javascript turned on" argument, > why can't JS code be written that can validate as well as CF? ( I know I > can't > write the JS code right now, but that's beside the point...) > > Thoughts? > > Rick > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275203 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
