Bad idea: submitting a form to the server using onBlur()!

Use JavaScript for what IMHO it appears to have been intended: as glue for holding together a web page, not for simplifying CGI coding. In other words, as little as possible within a given context.

If you're planning to do field validation at the browser (using JS), don't presume you no longer need it on the server (using Perl). What's to prevent some saavy hacker from viewing at your HTML/JS source and dummying up a URL using HTTP GET syntax? How does your (Perl) script react to unvalidated and/or clearly bad input?

Use Javascript or don't use it. Just make sure your forms work (however crippled it makes the UI) with JS disabled.

dmm

You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day ...
Or, you can teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime

In reply to Re(3): Can perl do interactive forms? by dmmiller2k
in thread Can perl do interactive forms? by rfulk

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