[whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions (Michael A. Puls II)

timeless timeless at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 21:59:28 PDT 2008


On 10/30/08, Eduard Pascual <herenvardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>  > On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Declare INPUT[type="mailing-list"] instead of INPUT[type="emails"],
>  >> please. Type="emails" is ugly and confusing (as it seems to expect
>  >> messages).
>  >> ...
>  >
>  > "emails" is indeed ugly, but "mailing-list" would be even worse. A mailing
>  > list usually has a single address.
>
> What about "multi-email", "email-list" or "email-addresses"? The last
>  one is the one I most like, and the most explicit, with the only
>  (minor) drawback that it's the longest. Anyway, that's just a
>  suggestion. BTW, the same argument could be made on type="email",
>  since someone could easily think it expects an entire message.

INPUT[type="email"][multiple="1"]

c.f. SELECT[multiple="1"]



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