On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, TAMURA, Kent wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 06:37, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, TAMURA, Kent wrote: > > > > > > I found type=number also had no typeMismatch. If a user wants to > > > type a negative value, he types '-' first. �This state should make > > > typeMismatch true because '-' is not a valid floating point number. > > > > The user agent shouldn't update the value until the input is a valid > > number. ("User agents must not allow the user to set the value to a > > string that is not a valid floating point number.") > > Why are type=email and url different from type=number at this point?
Mostly because numbers are simpler, so it seemed less useful to expose half-entered numbers to the script. However, if people disagree with this I'm happy to change it so that those three work the same. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
