Please see
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-July/027243.html
In short words, I disagree with the current spec.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:45, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, TAMURA, Kent wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 06:37, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> 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.
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