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Re: To validate or not to validate: Client side validation


From: Alexander Klimov <alserkli () inbox ru>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:31:49 +0300

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, pand0ra wrote:
Question: You are doing code review and come across a javascript
application that does not do input validation. Would you have the
developer go back and write in input validation? If so, why? If not,
why?

It is not a question of security (the client-side validation
cannot be trusted anyway), but rather a question of user
experience: the client-side validation makes error messages
faster.

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Regards,
ASK

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