At 01:31 +1000 UTC, on 2007-07-16, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Benjamin Joffe wrote: >> Have the following possible values for the TYPE attribute been considered >> for the INPUT element? > > The major problem with all of your proposals is that you have not > described any problem that they solve, nor provided any use cases for them.
I wrote earlier "A use case I can imagine is an authoring tool that let's users create CSS rules. Simply clicking the wanted colour avoids the risk of (syntactically) incorrect color values." Other problems it would solve - works more across browsing environments (because lack of javascript, Flash, etc dependancies). - provides the user with a consistent UI across sites - much less work for authors, not having to write javascript/Flash solutions [...] > Here's a few sites I found that ask the user to select colours. > > http://www.haymespaint.com.au/haymes/colourcentre/ > http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html > http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/ > > I can't figure out how any of those would benefit from the new input > type. [...] All of these are Flash and/or javascript dependant, and thus not accessible in every browsing environment. inpute type='color' would not have that problem (and probably fallback gracefully in environments that cannot present a color picker). All provide their own unique, different UI, which is confusing to users. Users would benefit from a UI that works the same across sites. -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>