Wow, this thread kept going like the energizer bunny. @Rick, on your next projects, first, try building your form, its processing page, and your server-side validation in pure CF. Once that is done, separately slap in your JS bells and whistles, including your client-side validation, and your *ajax form helpers*, second. You'd be amazed on just how much this approach will address most of the issues talked about in this thread. After doing this approach for awhile, you'd learn how to be efficient and won't be too much of a hassle at all.
Keep in mind that you should be leveraging the CF and JS for why you use them in the first place- that is, CF for server side data integrity mgt, and JS/ajax for the richer UI. Even on a javascript disabled client, you may loose the richer UI, but still not compromise the data integrity and control you have on the server side. @Claude, Dan S., Paul V.: I definitely agree with your points. Finally, here is an example of a poorly executed "Javascript Required" site. https://www.smithbarney.com/app-bin/homepage/servlets/HomepageServlet On Firefox or IE, simply view the page on enabled and disabled JS. Its developers simply neglected to detect JS on the client's browser, it does not even provide the necessary instructions to remedy the login form and display problem. Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:42 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Client-side validation or Server-side Validation? > > But now what I need to know is how to go about using > dual validation... > > I can dream up some schemes, but I'm sure that wheel's > been driven many miles already, so if anyone knows of > some info or tutorial on the subject as to the best way to > approach it, I'd be delighted to check it out... > > Rick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275607 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
