A pattern with exponential matching time can be used to lock the viewer's browser, potentially making her lose her input in other controls and other windows; that means the pattern attribute must be disabled for restricted sites. Chris -----Original Message----- From: whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org [mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Broyer Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:18 PM To: whatwg at whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Web Forms attributes: minlength / autocomplete Re required, see above. maxlength was already in HTML4, so (i guess) it's kept merely for backwards compatibility, but is actually equivalent to a pattern=".{,N}" where N is the maxlength value. minlength doesn't exist, and given that you can achieve the same effect using a pattern (see above), there's no real reason to introduce yet another attribute.Received on Thursday, 7 June 2007 02:41:50 UTC
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