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Heh, yes, the smiley face there encodes something like of ", although of course I know that in the 'real world' people can't just ignore product requirements th
by mherdeg 13y ago
Heh, yes, the smiley face there encodes something like of ", although of course I know that in the 'real world' people can't just ignore product requirements that don't make sense, and hopefully people will challenge at the design phase insane requirements like 'client-side validation of all possible e-mail addresses' rather than implementing them."
- pdonis 13y agoAs I understand it, it wasn't the customer who requested client-side email validation; the customer just requested validation against a list of known good addresses (instead of just against a list of known good domains), which is a perfectly reasonable requirement (for reasons given in other posts in this thread). It was the programmer who (insanely) decided to do the email validation client side instead of server side.