- From: Davis Peixoto <davis.peixoto@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:48:35 -0700
> > > Other than that, the only safe alternative would be to leave the > values untouched, so the page can say what it wants, the user honor > it, and the server get it as expected; or gracefully degrade to an > error message that actually points to the user error (rather than an > error introduced by an UA trying to be out-smart the user). > This goes in the opposite direction from the initial idea of creating a interface that intend to avoid type mismatches, unfortunately. > > For sites that are ready to sanitize values from a specific locale; > but which are accessed through an UA with different settings (ie: on a > public place while abroad), the UA adding locale-specific stuff to a > phone value is very likely to render whole forms unusables. > I just mentioned another drawback. -- Hugs, Davis. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100406/3210cab4/attachment.htm>
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