- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:27:41 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: > >>My argument isn't that |title| can't contain pattern hints. What I > >>object to is designing HTML5 so that |title| is the only thing that > >>can be used for pattern hints on legacy browsers. > > > > I don't understand why you think it is the only thing that can be used > > for pattern hints (on any browser, legacy or otherwise). > > Take your demo for example. Suppose you want both pattern hints and > tooltips in the legacy code. In that case, you'd want the code to > degrade to something like this for an HTML 4.01 user agent: > > | <input id="t1" name="t1" title="Enter the first date here."> > | format: DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM That's a date field. pattern="" doesn't apply to those. For other fields, I don't see the problem. Just put the format in the tooltip as well. > [<altinput>] I think we've already discussed this to death. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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