- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:25:16 +0200
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:21:44 +0200, Sander <html5 at zoid.nl> wrote: > Before HTML5 there was no HTML validation (as opposed to JS validation) > for form controls. So truncating the input value was probably the only > way to force the given maxlength (perhaps that's also why there wasn't a > minlength attribute before). > As HTML5 will get validation attributes like pattern= anyway, maybe it > would be consistent to have maxlength act in the same manner. I guess it > won't really break things as the end result will be the same, but maybe > I'm wrong. FWIW: you're wrong. maxlength= was made to truncate (again) because not doing so broke existing content. (Implementation experience coming from Opera implementing the Web Forms 2 specification.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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