Gerald, I used to use CFFORM, and it quickly got outdated as HTML and CSS and Javascript and jquery moved on. These days HTML5 is the go with CSS3. CFFORM doesnt produce those. Therefore things like client side validation, placeholder text, cross-browser issues, mobile devices are all possible but much more difficult to allow for with CFFORM than with the newer HTML5/CSS3 approach. Those new features are all built in with the new HTML5/CSS3 approach.
Believe me, you'll get a much better result if you go to the trouble of converting to HTML/CSS3. You will have more control over the displayed result, you'll have better client-side scripting with inbuilt html features and jquery and the resulting form on a mobile device will be a far better product. As I said, I used to use CFFORM and at the time, it seemed like the bees knees. But now it just seems SOO old fashioned. I inherited a site that had CFFORM and the java applets all over it (CFGRID etc) and it pretty soon showed that it was a nightmare to do updates on, and as more and more of our users wanted to use devices that didnt have flash and java on them, we got more and more problems. It soon proved that we needed to change to a pure HTML/CSS3/jquery approach for all client-side stuff, leaving ColdFusion to handle the backend server-side stuff, which is where CFML really struts its stuff and knocks everything else out of the park. (Sorry about the mixed metaphor!) Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Wil Genovese <jugg...@trunkful.com> wrote: > > There is always better ways to do things than using the client side CF > code. I have not looked at the output of CFFORM JavaScript in ages, but if > it has not been updated at all there's a good chance it's not fully > compatible with today's browsers. > > There are also form validation frameworks. One that I know of is > ValidateThis http://www.validatethis.org/ I'm not sure if this will work > in your case. It's worth at least looking into it. > > There are options and most will be better than CFFORM. > > Regards, > > > Wil Genovese > Sr. Web Application Developer/ > Systems Administrator > CF Webtools > www.cfwebtools.com > > wilg...@trunkful.com > www.trunkful. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:357829 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
