Re: Good validation package

From: Michael Winter (M.Winter_at_blueyonder.co.invalid)
Date: 12/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:21:51 GMT

On 13 Dec 2004 11:05:19 -0800, milkyway <d0mufasa@hotmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

> I have tried the one here:
>
> http://www.peterbailey.net/fValidate/
>
> but had some problems implementing it ;-(

I'm somewhat glad. Serving up over 50KBs of code to validate a few form
controls is stupid.

> I have seen the one from Dreamweaver but I am not using this package.

Most of the code I've seen generated by Dreamweaver is rubbish. I'd be
surprised if the form validation stuff is any better.

> Is there anything else out there that one can use?

What are you actually trying to validate? It's far more sensible to use
something small and efficient.

> Any help, hints or advice would be appreciated ;-)

On a different topic, please post to appropriate newsgroups. This solution
has nothing to do with Java, and ciwah deals with authoring HTML on the
Web not scripting.

Follow-ups set to c.l.js.

Mike 

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