Re: FN-FORUM: A very angry CSS user.

date posted 31st January 2005 00:20

In freelance.forum, Dai Williams [EMAIL REMOVED] (Dai Williams)
wrote in [EMAIL REMOVED]

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>Yes, .NET also sees non-IE browsers as incapable of form validation
>using client side script which is bizarre as this is one of the best
>supported features of js in my experience. Usual MS 'subtle' leveraging
>of server tech to push IE, which sadly will work in many cases. I had
>started to lean back towards MS when I saw the depth of the .NET
>framework plus the ability to use C# but I am veering away again having
>dug a little deeper - all so needless :(

Mind you, I've never understood why the HTML standard doesn't include a few
small features that would make 80%+ of the JavaScript unnecessary:

1) Simple client-side validation: field must be integer, field must be
alpha, or decimal... in fact, you could do all of it, and more besides, if
you could specify a regexp as an attribute of a field, and perhaps a range
check.

2) Alternate images for buttons etc- an image (which could be automatically
preloaded and cached) for mouse rollovers.

3) Combo boxes.


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