Re: [whatwg] input type=url allow URLs without http:// prefix

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Bruce Lawson wrote: The eleventy squillion WordPress sites out there that allow comments ask for your web page address as well as name and email. The method of entering a URL does not require the http:// prefix; just beginning the URL with www is accepted. As it's

Re: [whatwg] input type=url allow URLs without http:// prefix

2009-07-13 Thread Ian Pouncey
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Kornel Lesinskikor...@geekhood.net wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:46:19 +0100, Bruce Lawson bru...@opera.com wrote: As it's very common for people to drop the http:// prefix on advertising, business cards etc (and who amongst us reads out the prefix when reading

Re: [whatwg] input type=url allow URLs without http:// prefix

2009-07-13 Thread Bruce Lawson
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:48:51 +0100, Kornel Lesinski kor...@geekhood.net wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:46:19 +0100, Bruce Lawson bru...@opera.com wrote: I'd like to suggest that input type=url allows the http:// prefix to be optional on input and, if ommitted, be assumed when parsing.

Re: [whatwg] input type=url allow URLs without http:// prefix

2009-07-13 Thread Kornel
On 13 Jul 2009, at 08:52, Bruce Lawson wrote: I'd like to suggest that input type=url allows the http:// prefix to be optional on input and, if ommitted, be assumed when parsing. The spec explicitly allows that actual value seen and edited by the user in the interface is different from

[whatwg] input type=url allow URLs without http:// prefix

2009-07-12 Thread Bruce Lawson
Hi Cabal The eleventy squillion WordPress sites out there that allow comments ask for your web page address as well as name and email. The method of entering a URL does not require the http:// prefix; just beginning the URL with www is accepted. As it's very common for people to drop the

Re: [whatwg] input type=url allow URLs without http:// prefix

2009-07-12 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 12 Jul 2009, at 10:46, Bruce Lawson wrote: The eleventy squillion WordPress sites out there that allow comments ask for your web page address as well as name and email. The method of entering a URL does not require the http:// prefix; just beginning the URL with www is accepted. As

Re: [whatwg] input type=url allow URLs without http:// prefix

2009-07-12 Thread Bruce Lawson
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:15:50 +0100, Geoffrey Sneddon foolist...@googlemail.com wrote: How do we tell apart foo.html (a relative URL) and example.com (a host name)? good point. It never occurred to me that relative URLs would be entered. What's the use case? -- Hang loose and stay

Re: [whatwg] input type=url allow URLs without http:// prefix

2009-07-12 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:46:19 +0100, Bruce Lawson bru...@opera.com wrote: As it's very common for people to drop the http:// prefix on advertising, business cards etc (and who amongst us reads out the prefix when reading a URL on the phone?) I'd like to suggest that input type=url allows