[whatwg] <input type=email multiple>

Mihai Sucan mihai.sucan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 04:39:39 PST 2008


Le Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:36:10 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> a écrit:

> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Mihai Sucan wrote:
>>
>> I know it's rather very late for comments and suggestions to WebForms 2.
>> Yet, I think they are welcome for future versions. Hixie, if you have
>> any notes (or whatever) about WF3, please also include this suggestion
>> (if you haven't done so already).
>>
>> Today I was working on a newsletter web application where the client is
>> given an input labeled "To", just like in email clients. The client can
>> wirte multiple comma separated email addresses. I intended to use the
>> input type=email WF2 enhancement, however I've just learned this only
>> works with inputs which accept one single email address.
>>
>> For WF3 I would suggest that this use case should be taken into
>> consideration.
>>
>> Most email web applications have a single "To" field where the user can
>> write multiple comma separated email addresses, with autocomplete for
>> each address.
>>
>> The new type value could be "emails", "email-list", or even "email-csv".
>
> I've added <input type=email multiple> for this case.
>
> [snip other e-mails saying the same thing]

Just wanted to say thank you!


Best regards,
Mihai


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