On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:19 PM, TAMURA, Kent <tk...@chromium.org> wrote:
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#e-mail-state > > A valid e-mail address is a string that matches the production > dot-atom-text "@" dot-atom-text > > where dot-atom-text is defined in RFC 5322 section 3.2.3. > > [RFC5322]<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#refsRFC5322> > > I'd like stricter rule for it. e.g. > dot-atom-text "@" 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT) 1*("." 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT)) > > I understand the current production, dot-atom-text "@" dot-atom-text, is a > subset of addr-spec of RFC 5322. However dot-atom-text for the domain-part > is not practical. The production accepts apparently unusable email address > like "tk...@!!!!" > It would have been nice to send this email as a reply to the current discussion about type=email validation (several messages sent earlier today), especially since the argument there is for _less_-strict validation. PK
