- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:59:56 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > However, for <input type=email multiple pattern=".*@company.com"> the > pattern is applied to the value as a whole, rather than to the > individual addresses. This seems less useful. That's an oversight. I'll (eventually) update the spec to say that multiple="" makes pattern="" apply to each individual value, not the whole list. > I also realized that @list currently is pretty useless in similar > situations together with <input type=text>. Often times text inputs are > used to enter a list of tokens. One example is the keyword input field > in bugzilla. It helps you autocomplete from the list of available > keywords, but also lets you enter multiple keywords in the same text > field. As things stand now you can't use @list to accomplish this as it > operates on the whole value rather than each comma separated token. > > It would be possible to make this work by allowing @multiple to apply to > <input type=text>. The only effect would be that @list and @pattern > would operate on each comma separated token. If you implement it, I will spec it. I didn't add multiple="" to type=text in the spec because I was trying to minimise the implementation burden of the new attribute. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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