[whatwg] type=email validation is too loose for practical applications

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:19:42 +0200, Aryeh Gregor  
<Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nor does the current spec, but it only restricts what the UA actually
> submits, not what it accepts from the user.

Ah, that makes sense.


> The spec suggests that
> UAs convert IDNs to punycode for submission, which seems reasonable.

Though somewhat inconsistent with type=url, but then IDN email addresses  
are not quite there yet.


> Opera 9.64 seems to reject IDNs in <input type=email> (but I'm not
> totally sure on this, my IDN might just be wrong somehow).

We might not support them yet, I haven't checked.


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