Re: HTML Tag of INPUT

Chih-Jen Wu,

Check out http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-input-element.html#attr-input-type

This portion of the spec, while being a work in progress, is already
implemented by many major user agents. In my tests with stock Andriod and
iPhone systems I have not encountered a version that has not already
implemented this portion of the spec, properly driving the mode of the soft
keyboard as expected. If you are finding that your testing environment does
not have a browser that implements the "number" input type, I suggest your
user agent is seriously out-of-date, or obscure -- most vendors have been
pretty (overly?) eager to implement these specifications while they're
still hot off the press, or still on the press as it were.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:40 AM, <ChihJenWu@itri.org.tw> wrote:

>   Dear guys of W3C:
>
> Excuse me. I don't know the question which someone have raised.
> After I search the current SPEC. of HTML. there is no type as number in
> INPUT tag. I found that INPUT tag has properties like "text", "submit",
> "time" ....and so on. But has someone ever consider that use "number" as a
> type of INPUT tag.
> This is because I made a mobile page recently, and found that if we have a
> form for users who need to fulfill it on mobile devices. Unfortunately, the
> soft-keyboard can not automatically switch number or alpha between
> different INPUT tag, when the INPUT tag we arranged on mobile web page. For
> example, we want user type name (alpha), phone number(pure number) and
> ....etc.
> But the soft-keyboard can not pop up an adaptive keyboard according
> to type of INPUT tag is "text" or "number".
> About this issue, has the w3c ever consider add "number" type into
> properties of INPUT tag??
> Thanks for your answer
>
> Regards
> Chih-Jen Wu
> Front-end Engr/ITRI
>
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