On 11/2/10 3:57 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
If the user enters a value of 100 in<input type=number max=50>, then
it seems perverse to tell them "The maximum allowed value is 50" so
they have to go back and fix it. It makes more sense to just
automatically clamp it to 50. Unless the user happens to be
submitting the form before unfocusing the input, they'll see that it
got clamped and can fix it if that's wrong, but in practical cases it
should almost always be right to clamp out-of-range input, and to
round input that doesn't match the step. (If the author doesn't like
it in some particular case, they can use a simple event handler
instead of max="".)
This is difficult to do in practice. Consider:
<input type="number" min="20" max="50" value="20">
The user now wishes to input 30 instead of the default value of 20.
What steps need to be taken to do this, and how does the input control
react to those steps?
I agree that things are simpler if only one of min and max is specified.
-Boris
