[Bug 12885] Add a new input type=numeric

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12885

--- Comment #14 from Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] <ehsan@mozilla.com> 2011-06-07 17:17:15 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > So given that we want special behavior for digits here, in that non-latin
> > digits are transformed to latin digits, we should probably use a new type
> > rather than simply a keyboard-hint attribute.
> 
> I'm not sure special digit handling is appropriate for numeric. That might be
> appropriate for type=number but in this proposal we're suggesting that the
> input be free-form but focused on digits. A hint might therefore be
> appropriate.

I can't see why having free-form digit input would mean that we shouldn't
perform special handling for Arabic and Persian digits...

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Received on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:17:22 UTC