[whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions

[Geoffrey Sneddon]

On 15 Jul 2007, at 03:08, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sander" <html5 at zoid.nl>
> To: "Martin Atkins" <mart at degeneration.co.uk>; <whatwg at whatwg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 12:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions
>
>
>>
>> Martin Atkins schreef:
>>> Benjamin Joffe wrote:
>>>> Have the following possible values for the TYPE attribute been  
>>>> considered for the INPUT element?
>>>>
>>>> type="color"
>>>> The user agent would display an appropriate colour picker and  
>>>> would send a hexidecimal string represting that colour to the  
>>>> server.
>>>
>>> I like this idea. It's simple and it's something I've implemented  
>>> (and seen implemented) dozens of times.
>> I like this one too. It should have an pallet attribute that  
>> defines the color pallet. I'm not shure how though, cause on one  
>> hand I'd like to be able to choose easily from standard pallets,  
>> but on the other hand I'd like the option to create custom  
>> pallets. Perhaps pallet="custom" combined with a datalist could be  
>> an option here.
>> ...
>
> There are many possible implementations for different purposes.
> Here is one of color selectors we use in HTML:
> http://www.terrainformatica.com/sciter/screenshots/color-chooser.png
>
> I think it is not realistic to define all of them in single  
> specification -
> too many different use cases. I would define some generic extensible
> mechanism for inputs rather than defining particular input type=foo.

I expect the majority of UAs would use their OS's colour picker (or,  
failing that, the de-facto standard on the OS). In the case of OS X,  
this allows entry in many diverse ways: a colour wheel + brightness,  
grey scale, RGB, CMYK, HSB, spectrum, as well as a selection of  
predefined colours. Why do you only need to allow specific colours  
anyway?


- Geoffrey Sneddon