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by padjo 212 days ago
That is called input assistance, confusing it with validation is the source of millions of security problems.
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__jonas 212 days ago
That’s an interesting suggestion, but it is not, it’s called (client side) form validation

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#client-sid...

I definitely see your reasoning for wishing it had a different name though.

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johnisgood 211 days ago
I do understand what "client-side" validation is, but I wish it had a different name, because people think they can just validate client-side and they do not bother doing it on the server... for some reason, I do not know. It should be obvious though, right? Yet it is not.
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tlamponi 212 days ago
No, it's not. And if that's what confuses one, it will not be the actual source of these problems.
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