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- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:13:46 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12099
Summary: Input type=url: value range
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Windows NT
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
ReportedBy: stalinbulldog@gmail.com
QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
public-html@w3.org
As per the specification below, it appears that <input type='url' />
fields will not support the special form URL localhost, I believe this to be an
oversight as in many cases when querying the user for a url, especially in the
case of most post-form applications of this input type, localhost is a
perfectly valid response.
In example, a user is instructed to enter the information of a database to
connect to, usually the response will be in the form of schema://<ipv4
addr> or localhost, however, occasionally it will take the form of a url
[very likely one the user agent has encountered before]. Forcing this
application to use the type='text' field will under-utilize the information the
user-agent may be able to supply to the user.
As an aside, thank you for your time in reviewing this. I am quite excited
about the new introductions into the html standard this offers as it may help
move web development away from reliance on obscure or arcane classes/ids.
4.10.7.1.4 URL state
The value attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a valid URL
potentially surrounded by spaces that is also an absolute URL
2.6 URLs
A URL is an absolute URL if resolving it results in the same output regardless
of what it is resolved relative to, and that output is not a failure.
An absolute URL is a hierarchical URL if, when resolved and then parsed, there
is a character immediately after the <scheme> component and it is a U+002F
SOLIDUS character (/).
An absolute URL is an authority-based URL if, when resolved and then parsed,
there are two characters immediately after the <scheme> component and they are
both U+002F SOLIDUS characters (//).
To parse a URL url into its component parts, the user agent must use the parse
an address algorithm defined by the IRI specification. [RFC3987]
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