[whatwg] credit card numbers

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
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> In
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>   http://www.w3.org/2004/07/css-mmi/
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> credit card numbers have their own type.

A string matching the pattern="[0-9]{10}" is a credit card number:

   <input pattern="[0-9]{10}">

We don't really want to have a specific type for them in case the type 
definition changes, IMHO.


> Perhaps expire dates should as well. This would help auto-fillout 
> immensely and merchants would rejoice.

Expiry dates already have their own type ("month", previously called 
"expdate", renamed by popular demand).

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