I love javascript. I never turn it off, and I use it as much a I can. It adds many features to websites that nothing else can(except VBScript, etc.). It allows you to give your website a more friendly user interface, and automate a lot of tedious processes. I admit, it can be used in bad ways, and very annoying ways, but if you use it right it can be a great tool.

As far as form validation, the benefit of using JavaScript is that you don't have to submit the form, you can pop-up a alert window and the focus on the field that has the problem.

Now-a-days when almost all browsers support it, I couldn't see why you wouldn't want to reap it's benefits. And my opinion is, if you have javascript turned off, you're going to have trouble viewing most websites anyway.

I have never heard of any Security issues using javascript, so I wouldn't worry about that either.

my $name = 'Ben Kittrell';
$name=~s/^(.+)\s(.).+$/\L$1$2/g;
my $nick = 'tha' . $name . 'sta';
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