- From: Peter Kasting <pkasting@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:35:40 -0700
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:19 PM, TAMURA, Kent <tkent at chromium.org> wrote: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#e-mail-state > > A valid e-mail address is a string that matches the production > dot-atom-text "@" dot-atom-text > > where dot-atom-text is defined in RFC 5322 section 3.2.3. [RFC5322]<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#refsRFC5322> > > I'd like stricter rule for it. e.g. > dot-atom-text "@" 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT) 1*("." 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT)) > > I understand the current production, dot-atom-text "@" dot-atom-text, is a > subset of addr-spec of RFC 5322. However dot-atom-text for the domain-part > is not practical. The production accepts apparently unusable email address > like "tkent@!!!!" > It would have been nice to send this email as a reply to the current discussion about type=email validation (several messages sent earlier today), especially since the argument there is for _less_-strict validation. PK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090824/2af95d8e/attachment.htm>
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