I stand corrected on your feelings.

I agree that there are few if any situations where pure JavaScript is a good idea. Certainly the example that you responded to had navigation that would only work if you had JavaScript enabled. That should definitely be (and in fact trivially could be) fixed. But the specific validation that it did is one that absolutely has no need to be repeated server-side. It is an, "annoying nanny" message, "Did you really want to do something you can't undo?" The server is safe to assume that if it got that, and the message is appropriately validated (a check which only makes sense server-side!), then it should go ahead.

In that case merlyn will be given no annoying nanny message, others would, and all else will be the same. Actually merlyn probably sees that as being a good reason to turn JavaScript off. :-)

Cheers,
Ben

In reply to Is JavaScript a Bad Idea? (Was A thought...) by tilly
in thread A thought for JavaScript exiles by tilly

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