Le 27 août 09 à 00:03, Peter Kasting a écrit :
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Anthony Ricaud <rik...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough in my explanation. I was talking about
functionality such as Adress Book or History connection (for email,
tel or url) or + and - buttons for numbers. The kind of features
that web developers expect when input.type != text (like in Opera)
I'm not sure why or how web developers are relying on type=email,
tel, or URL to have a UA hook to some sort of local address book or
history. "Why" because such behavior is not specced anywhere (and
is outside the scope of HTML5) and is unlikely to be the same
between browsers, and "how" because I don't see how a web author
would compensate in the case of no type=url support (for example) by
providing a hand-rolled history list -- that data is not available
to the author.
PK
For input type=number, Opera and WebKit patches (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27968
) provide a UI to help selecting a number. This is something authors
can provide through JS when it's not handled by the browser. And they
can only use the DOM type to check for that.
For other types (email, tel, url), sure, authors can't implement
anything similar. But they can style them differently, offer
indications on how to fill them, etc. One of the reason to use new
input types in HTML5 is that they degrade gracefully, offering hooks
to authors to enhance their pages for browsers not supporting them
while providing the "native" version for browsers supporting them.
That's no longer possible if new types are exposed without new
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