Join devRant
Do all the things like
				++ or -- rants, post your own rants, comment on others' rants and build your customized dev avatar
				Sign Up
			Pipeless API
				From the creators of devRant, Pipeless lets you power real-time personalized recommendations and activity feeds using a simple API
				Learn More
			Related Rants

What only relying on JavaScript for HTML form input validation looks like
Yeah no
Everyone always says the previous developer was crap, sometimes you're right
So we used to build these awful "promotion" pages for a leading manufacturer in the area. Because the website was old as dirt, there was no CMS and everything was static html using Coldfusion for a few include files like for the nav and such.
Every year we would get a new project to tweak the promotion details a little, and change the year from 2011 to 2012, etc.
My predecessor put the digit "1" in an HTML file called year.html, then included it like:
"valid from January 1 though December 31, 201<cfinclude template="year.html">..."
Why? Just why? And if you're going to use include files, for Pete's sake at least use the proper .cfm file extension!
rant
html
coldfusion
wk99
bad code