philg hates software: Useless Use of Javascript

• From: Phil!Gregory
  Date: 15:54 on 15 Nov 2003
  Subject: Useless Use of Javascript
  
  I hate sites that use Javascript when they don't have to.  Fine, go ahead
  and use it for your fancy drop down menus and so on, but make sure your
  site still works without it.  Sites that require it in order to submit a
  form are especially annoying, because it usually means that they're
  trusting the Javascript to do input validation. so they're breaking form
  submission for pretty much no increase in security.
  
  
  

• From: David Champion
  Date: 00:40 on 16 Nov 2003
  Subject: Re: Useless Use of Javascript
  
  Sometimes their JavaScript input validation is just to prevent users
  from making trouble for themselves by entering data that the software
  won't parse, or something. There's not always a security implication for
  input validation. Using it to protect users from themselves strikes me
  as legitimate, though that's unfortunate since I loathe JavaScript.
  
  And I'd rather that their back-end software just be smarter, so it
  doesn't really save them from hates.
  
  But yeah, requiring JavaScript is obnoxious in any case.
  
  
  

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