On 31.3.2009, at 0:12, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Antti Koivisto wrote:
I'd like to propose a new <input> type attribute value for phone
numbers
(<input type="phonenumber"> perhaps). The primary benefit would be to
enable use of phone number specific input methods (for example a
virtual
keyboard) and pickers (for example a system address book). A useful
minimal implementation could limit the allowed characters to those
legal
in phone numbers (+ * # and 0-9).
Would the pattern="" attribute not be enough?
Pattern attribute does not communicate the type. It would not allow
you to bring up phone book based pickers or special input methods so
it does not satisfy the use case. It also pushes the burden of
specifying a right pattern to authors, something they are likely to
get often wrong.
Generally speaking at this point it's probably best for us to wait
for the
currently defined features to be more widely implemented before we
add any
more controls, since otherwise we'll just end up with different
browsers
implementing different subsets and it'll be a big mess.
While I agree with the general sentiment I think there is some
surprising asymmetry in including email type but leaving this
unspecified.
Different browsers implementing different subsets is probably
unavoidable initially in any case.
antti
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