Am 05.05.2010 23:06 schrieb Schalk Neethling:
The way I see it is that instead of browsers traversing the DOM looking for an input field of either id=username or name=username or even class=username, they now only have to look for an input of type username. Makes it a lot easier for both developers and browser vendors as they now only have to look for an input of type username and gives developers the freedom to use any name, id or class.
But in many cases the username is an e-mail address, then you get a conflict with type="email".
