- From: Max Romantschuk <max@romantschuk.fi>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:18:47 +0300
Smylers wrote: > The point is to have cases specifically _for_ it -- not adding > everything for which there isn't a reason against. > > If <textarea pattern=...> wouldn't in practice be used by authors then > there's no point in adding it. If it would be used then it should be > trivial to show some places where it would be used. I think it's important not to forget that a great deal of web applications are internal applications not exposed to the Internet. In an environment like that performance issues with evaluating regexps against a large body of text are less of an issue, since the workstations used are under the control of the organization the application is internal to. Personally I just feel that a unified interface is more valuable than "holding author's hands" and preventing them from making unwise design choices. If an input field used with the pattern attribute for inputting a single value needs to be changed to a multi-line textarea with the same pattern repeated not having pattern for textareas would mean a great deal of extra work for authors. Granted, my judgement is clouded... I've always felt that the separation of <input type="text"> and <textarea> seemed unnatural. I guess I'm just personally against widening the gap when the difference from a user's perspective is that one is single-line and the other multi-line. :) .max -- Max Romantschuk max at romantschuk.fi http://max.romantschuk.fi/
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