Re:The Sad State of HTML Email Input Fields and IDNs
by DCoder on Sunday October 23, 2016 @11:39AM
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1. type=number only accepts the period as a decimal separator, and there are lots of locales using comma for that purpose. Customers often ask us to support commas, which requires type=text and manual validation.
2. One customer requested the ability to enter decimals in a field, but to keep up/down spinner in steps of whole numbers. You can't do that, the step attribute makes any values other than (min + N * step) invalid. I can see some sense in that, but I think the step attribute should only affect the increments/decrements done by the spinner, not completely reject certain values. (Though you can use step=any to mark all values valid and step by 1.0, which is good enough for common cases.)
2. One customer requested the ability to enter decimals in a field, but to keep up/down spinner in steps of whole numbers. You can't do that, the step attribute makes any values other than (min + N * step) invalid. I can see some sense in that, but I think the step attribute should only affect the increments/decrements done by the spinner, not completely reject certain values. (Though you can use step=any to mark all values valid and step by 1.0, which is good enough for common cases.)