If the pattern email will map to a default of evaluating the input as if you used type=email you may have a problem but, if you have the specific need mentioned, change your pattern?
Schalk Neethling -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eitan Adler Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 7:02 PM To: Markus Ernst Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [whatwg] Keywords for the pattern attribute [was: RFC: <input type="username">] > <input type="text" pattern="email"> > <input type="username" pattern="email"> What if for some strange reason I wanted to only allow the text e-m-a-i-l ? There would have to be some way to differentiate between a keyword and a normal pattern.
