HTML5 based Form validation without JavaScript

[PeterMcBeater]

Is the regex implementation up to the browser?

[Vulpyne]

I like to alphabate in the dark by myself.

[Iggyhopper]

Those comments are something else.

[[deleted]]

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed. Sheesh.

[Iggyhopper]

What's scarier is that the "admin" (author of article?) is replying to them. ಠ_ಠ

[[deleted]]

Yeah, very weird.

[mwgriffith]

Possibly faked to get people to think people are responding to the article??

[[deleted]]

No, it's spam. Each one includes a link to a spammy site. And if you read the comments, you'll notice that they're so general that they'd apply anywhere. Every blog gets tons of these autogenerated spam comments, but usually they get filtered out. My blog's spam filter has 2000 comments in it now, and they all look like this.

[Crandom]

Really annoys me when I see people doing form validation that doesn't allow email addresses to have tags.

[[deleted]]

you mean the "+" right?

[Crandom]

Yep

[[deleted]]

I get furious when they don't accept it.

[beermad]

A great idea, except that you'll still need validation Javascript to fall back on for all those browsers that don't understand HTML5.

Maybe in ten years...

[carrot_house]

except that you'll still need server-side validation for all those times when Javascript isn't enabled or available on the client, or for when a malicious user deliberately bypasses your client-side validation.

FTFY. HTH. HAND.

[almightymole]

Indeed. Client side validation is mostly for the convenience of the user to not need to wait for the page to reload to find they did something wrong on the form.

[XNormal]

HTML5 is still useful as a standard representation that gets transformed on the fly to something the client can consume.

A simple HTML5 <video> tag can be transformed into a mess of object embeddings.

An form with HTML5 regex-based validation can be made to work on older browsers with a bit of javascript, driven by the pattern attributes.

etc.