- From: Mihai Sucan <mihai.sucan@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:03:18 +0300
- To: "Maurice Carey" <maurice@thymeonline.com>, "HTML Working Group" <public-html@w3.org>
Hello Maurice! Le Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:41:34 +0300, Maurice Carey <maurice@thymeonline.com> a écrit: > On 9/12/07 12:36 PM, "Mihai Sucan" <mihai.sucan@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hopefully some suggestions will still be taken into consideration. Like >> ... input type=emails (because input type=email is too useless, *cough* >> too ... limited). :) > > Why do you say that? I want suggestions to be taken into consideration for HTML 5 spec, even if WF2 will be folded into the spec. WF2 can stay the same, but it's not perfect and making improvements to it within the HTML 5 spec seems to be a really good opportunity. It's "natural" to start the work from WF2 in HTML 5, but that shouldn't stop just at folding the spec in. As for the input type=email: I believe it has a very limited set of use-cases. The best place where web developers could have benefited from the usage of input type=email was omitted: web mail clients. Now we are stuck with a simple input type=email which is only usable in simple contact forms, where the author has a single "from email address" field. Another simple use-case is for newsletter/mailing-list subscription forms. This issue has been previously discussed on the WHATWG list, however I maintain my stance. [1] [2] [1] http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-January/008986.html [2] http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-February/009614.html -- http://www.robodesign.ro
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