On 31.3.2009, at 10:02, James Graham wrote:
FWIW I would imagine that the most useful aspect of <input type="tel"> or whatever would not be validation (because validation is hard) but would be better integration on mobile devices e.g. making the default action of the keypad be number keys, making phone numbers from the contacts list available, etc. (these were both pointed out already). Therefore whilst I totally recommend this feature be postponed for HTML6, I think it makes a lot of sense and that problems with validation are a red herring.
This is a fairly important feature for browsers running on mobile phones. Something like this is likely to be implemented whether or not it is in the specification. I would prefer it it to be specified for obvious interoperability reasons.
Validation is indeed a complete red herring, this is about input methods.
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