Re: New Input type proposal

On 9 Jan, 17:23, Alexander Mueller <noem... (AT) example (DOT) org> wrote:

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

This is an excellent idea for web design, and a bad idea for HTML.

Your idea has merit overall. However it's also simple to implement it
by well-established client-side scripting techniques, such as
JavaScript and the DOM. There is thus no need to add it to HTML. Maybe
XForms should consider it. This will work for anyone with a credible
browser platform (i.e. reasonably modern) who has JS enabled. That's
enough people and excludes sufficiently few JS-avoiders that it
doesn't justify a major addition to a long-established standard, such
as the list of HTML input types.