To fix these issues, we synchronized all of the validation routines from the client-side JavaScript with the validation libraries on the server. There were a few differences we couldn't change for backwards compatibility. For instance, server-side date parsing validation allows more date formats than the client-side JavaScript validation; however, if you call e-mail validation on the client or on the server now, ColdFusion runs the same regular expression to validate it. Of course, calling these validation routines was still annoying because you still had to code an HTML hidden field to trigger each field. Although using hidden fields is still a useful