- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:26:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, TAMURA, Kent wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 06:37, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, TAMURA, Kent wrote:
> > >
> > > I found type=number also had no typeMismatch. If a user wants to
> > > type a negative value, he types '-' first. This state should make
> > > typeMismatch true because '-' is not a valid floating point number.
> >
> > The user agent shouldn't update the value until the input is a valid
> > number. ("User agents must not allow the user to set the value to a
> > string that is not a valid floating point number.")
>
> I don't accept this behavior. Suppose that a user type "-" to an empty
> <input type=number>, then press ENTER to submit the form. As per the
> current specification, UA should send an empty value for the number
> control even though the number control has a visible string. The user
> doesn't expect a value different from the visible value is sent. This
> is very confusing.
>
> In such case, UA should prevent the form submission and show a
> validation message for typeCheck.
I would expect hitting enter in such a scenario to do something like
change the display so that the "-" is replaced by a zero. This is similar
to, e.g., how when you type in "-" as the port in the Mac OS X Network
configuration panel's Proxy tab and then hit OK, it just gets dropped with
comment, or how when you put in a bogus IP address as a DNS entry and hit
OK, it beeps and removes the entry. Firefox's "Offline Storage" numeric
entry edit box and the edit boxes for proxy port numbers are similar --
they won't let you enter an invalid value.
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