Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

2008-10-31 Thread Andy Lyttle
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: I have no problem with . type=address would be very confusing (see what people think about the element today!), and worse, can legitimately be thought to be for inputting physical addresses. No one will ever think that type=email is for

Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

2008-10-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Kristof Zelechovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Indeed, INPUT[type=email] is confusing as well. I would add [type=address] > and [type=address-list] as candidates because an e-mail address is the most > common type of an address on the Web (the e-mail part can be

Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

2008-10-30 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eduard Pascual Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:28 AM To: Matthew Paul Thomas Cc: WHAT working group Subject: Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2,input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II) What about "multi-

Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

2008-10-29 Thread timeless
On 10/30/08, Eduard Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > >> > >> Declare INPUT[type="mailing-list"] instead of INPUT[type="emails"], > >> please. Type

Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

2008-10-29 Thread Eduard Pascual
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: >> >> Declare INPUT[type="mailing-list"] instead of INPUT[type="emails"], >> please. Type="emails" is ugly and confusing (as it seems to expect >> messages). >>

Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

2008-10-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: Declare INPUT[type="mailing-list"] instead of INPUT[type="emails"], please. Type="emails" is ugly and confusing (as it seems to expect messages). ... "emails" is indeed ugly, but "mailing-list" would be even worse. A mailing list usua

Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

2008-10-29 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:46 AM To: Alex Vincent Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II) We'll probably add type=color soon, and maybe type=emails or some such some time after that. In general though I agree that we should

Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Alex Vincent wrote: > > I've held off on commenting about the new types suggested for input so > far, but I should mention this: Web Forms 2 as it currently stands has > twenty-four different types of input elements. Ten from HTML 4, > fourteen new ones in this spec. Plea

Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

2007-07-15 Thread Alex Vincent
I've held off on commenting about the new types suggested for input so far, but I should mention this: Web Forms 2 as it currently stands has twenty-four different types of input elements. Ten from HTML 4, fourteen new ones in this spec. Please, please, don't overload it any more than is absolu