Le Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:58:20 +0200, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a
écrit:
Mihai Sucan wrote:
No. I really meant commas, not semicolons. This is because I use commas
to separate multiple email addresses in the "To:" field in Opera M2.
I'm quite certain it also works in Outlook,
Incredibly (at least last time I looked) it only works when you check a
particular checkbox hidden deep in the prefs, which is off by default.
Why they don't just make it work, I have no idea. Gratuitious
incompatibility?
Yes.
Yet, it's long time since I used Outlook. I don't know it very well now.
One should also take into consideration the following:
Given a list of emails (separated by commas or semicolons), e.g.:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In Opera I can select this list and copy/paste it into the To field.
This just works.™
I find it hard to believe that does *not* work in Thunderbird.
It does - but see below.
Now ... if the web application is made with a markup as you've
provided, one has to manually copy/paste (or write) each email address
in a single "To:" field. This is more than boring.
Not if it does the simple, smart thing that Thunderbird does - if you
paste in a comma-separated list of addresses, turn it into a list of
single entries.
You've now added even more work: parse the list of emails, and add the new
inputs for each email address.
Also, what Thunderbird does is not always desirable: having 50+,
150+ emails takes too much screen space (too many rows). Keeping all of
them in a single input is a lot more compact.
Isn't it easier, after all, to have a single simple <input type=emails> ?
Parsed only once when the form is submitted (either server-side, or
client-side, it does not really matter).
Point is, what you guys suggested is what I define "fancy" - it's too much
work to do quickly, but I agree, it can be done and it's quite good.
However for something simple such functionality needs too much JS+DOM
work. The final result is basically allowing not only a single <input
type=emails> (as I suggested), but multiple such fields, as many as the
user wants - while all the work is done by the web author, not by the UA.
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