I'm sorry David, I guess I was speaking for myself. I did the whole assuming thing. </face red>
--- David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 31, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Chris Howe wrote: > > > The contributing member's javascript skills aren't > as > > strong as we'd like. > > Hmmm.... speak for yourself! > > > However, as a community our > > server side validation scripting is very strong, > or at > > least OFBiz makes server side validation pretty > easy. > > Ideally, you may not want the round trip to tell > > somebody they did missed a field, but until > someone > > finds it important enough to contribute client > side > > validation, I imagine it's not going to change > very > > much ;) > > The real issue is that if you do client side > validation you still > HAVE to do server side validation because client > side validation is > not reliable unless you have tight control of the > browser client > being used, and its configuration (since JavaScript > can be turned off > in most browsers). > > Because of that we decided to go with just server > side stuff to > simplify the development. For custom UIs you can > easily add client > side validation, and this is often done. > > -David > > > > > --- Sam Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Can anybody of you tell me why Ofbiz didn't > >> implement any client side validation for required > >> fields in any form ???? > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > >> Sam Dave > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------- > >> All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful > email > >> and get things done faster. > > > >
