- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:29:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > What kind of input type is the following according to HTML 5: > > <input type=" email > "> WF2 doesn't define this (intentionally). Extrapolating from HTML4 it would be of type "email"; which is probably what WA1 will eventually say. > According to the attribute value rules of HTML 4 it should be 'email', > but I'm not sure how that is implemented at the moment. Similar question > for: > > <input type="email" value=" example at example.org > "> > > ... valid or invalid? The form control there would not be valid. There's nothing in either HTML4 or WF2 that says that leading whitespace on the value="" attribute should de stripped, as far as I can tell. > As Web Forms 2 extends on HTML 4 at the moment this is not particularly > clear and it would be nice to know. The problem is that this is a slippery slope that I don't really want to go down with WF2. I agree that these things should be defined and I'll make sure that they are in WA1. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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