[whatwg] several mail addresses in input type email?

Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen hallvors at online.no
Mon Jun 28 04:43:29 PDT 2004


On 28 Jun 2004 at 20:54, Lachlan Hunt wrote:

>  Wouldn't this make the most sense if the multiple attribute behaved the
> same way on other elements, as it currently does with <select
> multiple="multiple">? 

I think that sounds like a good idea.

>    The only problem is that it may not degrade gracefully into older UAs,
> and would still need to submit a delimited list in one name=value pair, so
> the server would need to check whether multiple pairs were recieved; or,
> if only one was recieved, whether it contains a delimited list of values,
> or a single value.

Since that is the current state of affairs it should not cause any 
backend problems with non-WF2 UAs.
-- 
HRMS



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