On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > > > > Well the alternative is to not have the user agent change the value at > > all, in which case you still have to do server-side canonicalisation, > > so I don't think it really makes any difference. > > If the UA is not changing the value, we are sure at least webpage > authors can easily specify how they want the telephone number to be > formatted and check it with pattern attribute (or use > setCustomValidity()).
If the author is doing the formatting, it's really not much better than a type=text field. The reason to have type=tel is to allow the UA to do that part of the work. > I've opened bug 9439 about this issue. Right-o. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'