- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:43:19 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote: > > > > If the field is for a postcode or credit card number, then type=number > > is an inappropriate field type. Those aren't numbers, they're > > specially formatted strings. > > Thanks for clarifying. Could the spec give clearer advice to authors on > this point? We've come across this problem in the wild (it is perhaps > more likely to be part of a custom form validation than an attempt at > following WF2 but I can see authors getting a bit too excited about the > new types and label anything that looks like a number with type=number.) Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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