Mark Galbreath wrote:
>
> Everyone (beginning with me) is telling him to use JavaScript. He
> says (privately to me) that his boss insists that validation take
> place on the server (typical boss - probably from Marketing).
>
Even if you use Javascript to validate on the client side,
you still have to re-validate on the server-side. Client
side validation just speeds up feedback, it doesn't
guarantee clean data. (Eg, the user has Javascript turned
off, the user posts the data using a tool other than a web
browser, etc, etc, etc)
--
Christopher St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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