meverhagen wrote:It is possible to use the banking sites on different pc's. The best thing users can do is to use an other computer (of a friend, or in the library) to use the banking websites.
Why?
I'd rather only input personal data into my own machine thank you very much.
The javascipt is mainly used to precheck the form data users have entered in the forms. Using IE javascipt means that these prechecks will not work in other browsers.
yes, but if the javascript conforms to the standards this will not be a problem. Using javascript to do a prevalidation (has the user missed an entry or put something in the wrong box etc) is a valid thing to do as it speeds the process up if the user makes an error. I always tell my people to put some validation on their web forms, so that it puts it straight back to the user if they (for example) hit the return button instead of the tab button and try to submit a half-filled form
(The data a user fills in isn't processed on the client computer, it is processed on the bank server. asp means active server pages. cgi is also a server side thing.)
Yes, we know this.....
This prechecking could easely be done by the bank server (on the server side.). So I think the banking sites should be useable without enabling javascipt.
It could be done, but it wouldn't be as fast. Trust me on this, I work with a big application that exchanges information with the web. For best results you want to validate the form entries as near to the user as you can get.
What is it with your obsession with javascript. What do you think it is going to do to you?