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Sure, it's server-side validation – which is great, and works well. And now it works without a full page submit and reload. That's a huge benefit.


Ever since xmlhttprequest (and even before that with images) we've been able to do server-side validation without a full page reload.

This "solution" completely ignores the purpose of client-side validation which is to a) reduce load on server-side resources, b) validate faster without the network latency and c) validate more securely and privately by not sending the content to the server.


Which you can do already for over a decade with AJAX.


Yup. And DHTML over a Java applet before XMLHttpRequest. 1999 at least, iirc.




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