On 31.3.2009, at 13:35, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:35 +0200, Antti Koivisto <[email protected]>
wrote:
Validation is indeed a complete red herring, this is about input
methods.
In that case it might be better to re-introduce the inputmode=""
attribute for this purpose. The specific type="" attribute values
actually ensure (when implemented) that some normalized form of the
data goes to the server. If that is not a goal here I'm not sure we
should introduce a type="" attribute value for it.
Phone number specific input method presumably won't allow entering
values that are not phone numbers so a reasonable implementation
satisfies your normalization requirement. However validation is not
the reason why this is an interesting feature, the ability to provide
better user interface is.
I don't see how this is different from the existing type attribute
values like "email". Could you explain the difference?
antti
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