Re: [nyphp-talk] Proper Form Processing Techniques

2014-05-18 Thread David Krings
On 5/18/2014 1:43 AM, Michael B Allen wrote: Hi All, Occasionally I need to do a little web programming and I must admit after almost 2 decades I still find myself searching for a better way to handle HTML forms. I blame this mostly on the W3C's invalid assumption that HTML is for rendering docu

Re: [nyphp-talk] Proper Form Processing Techniques

2014-05-18 Thread Bill Patterson
My favorite technique is to look at form processing as a set of orthogonal descriptions. In the case of a validating data entry form the first description is the description of the form itself, which I like in XML, and regardless you could use your own notation. The second description is orth

Re: [nyphp-talk] Proper Form Processing Techniques

2014-05-18 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:52:59AM -0400, David Krings wrote: > I agree that js makes pages more usable and > allows for pretty neat stuff, but it breaks the underlying model and often > enough I encounter problems because the server has no idea what the client is > doing, sometimes even so muc