Hmmm interesting bit I found when doing a search 
http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/issues/detail?id=920

Honestly I always considered it proper form coding to always specify the 
type of the input. I thought I read a few notes on older browsers 
(Netscape?) not handling inputs without a type= correctly.

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Steve Summit wrote:
> Andrew Garrett wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Steve Summit <[email protected]> wrote:
>>     
>>> Sometime between yesterday and today, the edit summary field on
>>> en.wp's edit page lost its "type=text" attribute.
>>>       
>> Is it causing any problems?
>>     
>
> No, just a curiosity.
>
>   
>> It was part of some much-needed code cleanup I did to the editing page.
>>     
>
> Okay, but beware: wpAntispam still does have the explicit
> type="text", and there's a confusing welter of single and
> double quotes among the type='hidden' fields. :-)
>
>   
>> You should note that bots *should not* be using the UI, as breaking
>> changes such as this.
>>     
>
> Oh, yeah, I know.  But it's an old bot, and it mostly works, and
> I haven't found time to sit down and rewrite it to use the API.
>
>   
>> Even using the UI, you should use a proper HTML parser, not regexes
>> (as I suspect you were using) to parse the HTML.
>>     
>
> Don't worry, it uses a *ML parser.
>   


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