- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:04:13 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > Ok, addresses might not be the best example. I would imagine that most > use cases for pattern for a single line, carries over if you want to > have that single line wrap and be displayed as multiple lines. So if you > can provide the list of use cases that was used to add pattern on > single-line input and I'd be very surprised if not most of them carries > over to multi-line. The main use cases that were considered as far as I recall were credit card numbers and other bank numbers (we originally considered type=cc but that turned out to be more locale-specific than expected), social security numbers and other formatted serial numbers, and username fields that exclude certain characters. > The difference between <input type=text> and <textarea> is mostly a > rendering one. One scrolls the text when it can't fit, the other wraps. > Do you really think that creates enough of a difference that the feature > set should be different? The feature sets are different in many other ways. This is hardly an exception. For example, <textarea> has no list="" support, cols="" works differently than size="", the default value is set differently, <textarea> doesn't support autocomplete, etc. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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