[Bug 12885] Add a new input type=numeric

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

--- Comment #32 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> 2011-06-16 21:10:41 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #31)
> This is closely related to bug 12409 (filed by Apple).  We could have separate
> numeric and autocapitalize functions, but it makes more sense to me to combine
> them.  In that case, we could satisfy this bug by standardizing autocapitalize
> with the values that iOS already supports ("none", "sentences", "words",
> "characters") and add a new "numeric" value.  autocapitalize would then be a
> poor name for the attribute, but it makes more sense to pave the cowpaths than
> to introduce a new attribute or type that serves a similar purpose, IMO.

<input type=text autocapitalize=numeric> is sufficiently wtf-y that I don't
consider the reuse of similar functionality to be worthwhile.

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Received on Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:10:43 UTC