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   Paul Shryock (paulshryock@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:09:52 JST Paul Shryock

   Please stop making bad HTML forms. I know you really want to. Stop. I know you want to add really strict name validation. Stop. I know you want to add really strict email validation. Stop. Stop breaking HTML forms. I know you want to be clever. Stop. Stop making really bad HTML forms. Stop. Just let the browser do what it wants to do. Use proper input types. Do some lightweight sensible validation. Then validate server-side. Stop making really bad HTML forms. Please. Stop.

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     Paul Shryock (paulshryock@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:09:48 JST Paul Shryock

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     If you're a software engineer, please learn HTML. Please really learn HTML. Please stop making really bad HTML forms. Please start making really good HTML forms.

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     Paul Shryock (paulshryock@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:09:49 JST Paul Shryock

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     It's so widespread that people make HTML forms and then FUCKING break them so they can't be filled out. Stop.

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     Paul Shryock (paulshryock@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:09:51 JST Paul Shryock

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     Especially for any financial institution, or any healthcare institution, or any business, or any website of any kind.

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     Dion Moult (thinkmoult@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 09:32:53 JST Dion Moult

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     @paulshryock let's also encourage people to start testing their websites with text browsers again and building sites that work without JS (which is an optional enhancement).

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     Paul SomeoneElse (pkw@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 10:47:22 JST Paul SomeoneElse

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     • Dion Moult

     @thinkMoult @paulshryock Imagine how awesome it would be if form based complex web sites did NOT use react or even javascript? Just plain old GET and POST with decent html forms.

     This would be amazing.

     Yes I love it when i enter text into a form and javascript somehow always messes it up.
     You can enter data so much faster, easier, and more reliably w/o having javascript literally parse every character entered.

     lol i got mad thinking about it :P