Re: New Input type proposal

J.O. Aho wrote:

Alexander Mueller wrote:
Hi,

the reason behind my email is the proposal of a new Input type named "hash"

input type="hash" /

I am now going into detail about why I'd consider it as important and
technical information as well as comparisons to current techniques.

I can't see any extra advantage of your input has, more than it will just
consume more bandwidth for transporting the data. The has type will always be
the same for a site,

The attribute tells the *browser* what kind of hash to create.

as the passwords will always be stored in that type, a
site that uses md5 hashed passwords will never request a sh1 hashed password,
as then they can't validate the password is correct.

The browser doesn't have pre-existing knowledge that such-and-such site
uses MD5 hashed passwords (though a default hash method could be defined
in the standard, just as there is a default value for the enctype
attribute of the form tag).