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From: Steve Green
Date: Jun 6, 2018 4:08PM

This is precisely my thought too. Historically (say up to perhaps ten years ago) validation was just about always done on form submission and I don't recall any users expressing dissatisfaction with this. It seems that new approaches such as validation on blur and even validation on key-up have become common without any user research that I am aware of.

We have a client whose existing website has a mixture of all three approaches and we have to decide which one to standardise on, so I would be delighted to find that they have been researched extensively and one approach was found to be better.

Steve