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Let’s make 2023 the year of better web forms.
If you’re a web developer looking for a New Year’s Resolution, may I suggest making this the year that we stop endlessly bothering people with apostrophes, eñes, or other special characters in their names?
I understand that properly escaping and sanitizing inputs isn’t the easiest thing in the world, and that it’s better to err on the side of preventing SQL injection — but we have the technology that will keep our sites from getting hacked and that won’t tell people their names are invalid. Let’s use it.
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