- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:12:30 +0000
- To: W3C WAI ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Clayton H Lewis wrote: > I believe this takes too narrow a view of what javascript does. it's not > just for things like animations and special effects. it also does things > like checking that required fields have been filled in in a form, > checking that values that are provided are valid, and sometimes These are things that the server must re-check, otherwise it has a serious security problem (it has no control over what happens on the user's machine - a suitably skilled user can subvert the scripting), so it should be easy to write a page that still submits properly, without the scripting. It is easy to make scripting abort a submission if it is enabled and finds an error. Unfortunately, people seem to like transferring values into a hidden form and having the scripting submit that. [Large quantity of bottom quoting removed. That's another change for the worse.] -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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