client side validation is pointless if you can't validate server side http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_input_email http://www.w3schools

client side validation is pointless if you can't validate server side http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_input_email http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_inp... the firefox implementation will gladly accept the invalid test.@example.com but won't accept the valid "test"@example.com this is just a case of poor validation which we are now stuck with