[whatwg] Proposal for showing thousand separator in form controls.

2015-10-13 Thread Михаил Гаврилов
Hi to all! Excuse me I am newbie here. I want make a proposal for displaying thousand separator in numeric input fields. Most users would be more satisfied if in any would seen as 1 234 567 890.012 345 678 9 of course thousand separator must depend of local settings. 1234567890.0123456789 =

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for showing thousand separator in form controls.

2015-10-13 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/13/15 3:35 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote: S ... any implementers interested in solving this problem? Note that Gecko used to show such separators, then stopped doing that. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=974175 for details. It might be worth having some way to opt in

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for showing thousand separator in form controls.

2015-10-13 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote: > especially since custom elements are unable to participate in the form > control ecosystem That is very fixable though. There have been good proposals made. / Jonas

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for showing thousand separator in form controls.

2015-10-13 Thread Domenic Denicola
This has come up before; I think https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Feb/0075.html is the most recent thread on the subject. In general, the spec does not mandate such UI features of browsers, but the input types are somewhat of a gray area in that regard, since part