[whatwg] <input type="text" accept="">

L. David Baron dbaron at dbaron.org
Thu Jun 8 20:20:23 PDT 2006


On Friday 2006-06-09 01:49 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> I don't think it's an option because:
> 
>    <input type="text" required maxlength="80" name="subject"
>           spellcheck list="subjects" value="Hey there"
>           inputmode="user startUpper">
> 
> ...or:
> 
>    <input type="text" required name="formula" spellcheck="math" 
>           inputmode="math" highlight="math" auto-evaluate>
> 
> ...or:
> 
>    <textarea name="source" rows="80" spellcheck="off" autoindent="C++"
>              highlight="C++" auto-evaluate="off">
> 
> ...gets out of hand very fast.

It may be out of hand (although I don't think it is), but it's much
easier for authors and implementors to understand, and much more likely
to be interoperably implemented, than what you're proposing.

-David

-- 
L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
           Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation
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