- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:55:44 +0300
The WF2 spec does not say anything about filtering autocomplete lists on pattern and Opera 9 does not do it. However, autocomplete entries that would fail form validation are not particularly useful. I suggest saying that potential autocomplete items (whether supplied by the UA itself or read from a datalist) should be tested against the datatype and the pattern of the form field being filled and should only be shown if they match both the datatype and the pattern. (Real-world case: The autocompelete menu for the document field at http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator/ shows ftp and file URLs in Opera 9 even though the pattern only matches http and https URLs.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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