RE; See the inputmode="" attribute in the current draft.

I'm familiar with it from XForms but unless if totally missed a trick it is 
oriented towards languages and modes (such as  lowerCase) rather than 
filtering/refusing certain keys - I will dig back in incase I missed something 
in Xforms...

Re: This can be easily achieved with a simple script but I wonder if it's  
desirable.

but the point of webforsm is to avoid scripts where possible (so it works for 
high security peeps as well as accessibility peeps...), isn't it?

as for desireable - well if WEb forms is part of the WEB API initiative and 
both legacy applications (unix/dos based), contemporary applications (key code 
fields in installation dialogs) and future apps (my next project!! ;-)) I 
suspect it is both useful and desireable (if you've ever been a data inputter 
you'll know what i mean. If you are uncomfortable with 'autotabbing' then a 
trimmed down version might be making a field with readonly elements e.g. 
01/02/1945 as __/__/___  Still autotabbing is a feature I have been asked to 
deliver about once ever six months for the last 10 years (and using script have 
done so) I just want to make it work for my banking friends who have scripts 
turned off and who are ALWAYS using legacy style apps so get frustrated when 
clunk web apps don't provide the facility (especially when hitting the right 
arrow on a form element doesn' jump you to the next element.

My feelings is that it is both desireable and useful (and I'd like to see 
improved keyboard accessibility (such as arrow keys too) but this is probably 
not the place for that rant!...

Christian

 On Wed Mar 21 10:52 , "Anne van Kesteren"  sent:

>On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:03:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
>wrote:
>> 1) Input filtering (i.e. allow only numbers to be typed)
>> suggested implementation (like pattern takes a regexp but behaves as if   
>> inside: ^
>> [ ]$
>> 
>
>See the inputmode="" attribute in the current draft.
>
>
>> 2) Auto tabbing
>> for a 4 digit code:
>> 
>
>This can be easily achieved with a simple script but I wonder if it's  
>desirable.
>
>
>-- 
>Anne van Kesteren
>http://annevankesteren.nl/>
>http://www.opera.com/>

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