- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:59:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Michael A. Puls II" <shadow2531@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Michael A. Puls II wrote: > > O.K., so if the UA ignores invalid input, you'll get "" or a previously > set valid number. > > If the UA interprets invalid input as "", you'll get "". > > So, O.K. No matter what the UA considers invalid or valid or whether it > sets invalid input to "" or ignores it or only allows valid input, > you'll either get a valid number or "" for the control's value. In that > case, a value of "" would mean that "the control doesn't currently have > a valid number set". Right. > I also wanted to see how interoperable it is if you check .value for "" > to see if the input in this case of type="number" is not valid. There's > validity.valid and the individual others and you can check validity of > the form, but if someone was just checking the value of the control to > see if it's valid (I feel that might be likely), then I wanted to see > how it'd work. Right. There's no way to tell that the user entered something that the user agent is displaying but doesn't consider valid. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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