Seems to me for simple forms that only require the user to ensure a field contains data or contains an email address that HTML5 works great. Would it be fine to get rid of jQuery validate or would there be any reason to use both?
I’m using ASP.NET MVC and learning as I go. I assume that adding a DataAnnotation to a Model Property and using @Html.ValidationMessageFor is what throws the jQuery validation message on there. I’m wondering if it would be fine to remove jQuery Validate as well as @Html.ValidationMessageFor and just use HTML5 input attributes such as type=”email” or even required=”required”, even pattern=”myregexhere”.
Just wondering what everyone else is doing I guess.
As of now HTML5 is still catching up and not supported by all versions of all browsers… So I would advice you to use HTML5 along with jQuery. Also use modernizr for checking whether the browser supports HTML5.