- From: <Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 05:22:20 -0500 (EST)
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Clover Andrew wrote: > Extending the maxlength attribute to file inputs in general seems useful and > pretty harmless. In theory, the maxlength attribute has been useable for file input since RFC 1867, and it was incorporated intoto HTML 3.2, though the _meaning_ has been completely changed. :-) See http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/forms/file.html#restr > I'm not sure how often maxtime would be useful though. It's questionable whether such constraints are HTML business at all. If HTML forms are enhanced with some new possibilities for setting constraints on data, then there are much simpler things that come into my mind, like restricting input in text input field to be numeric. But a really useful constraint mechanism requires a language which has some properties of a programming language, at least a reasonably powerful expression syntax and semantics; ergo, no HTML business. -- Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/ or http://yucca.hut.fi/yucca.html
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