What are "friendly names"?

mass-move component to LC1

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Please address comment 1. Also note that what the user can input and what gets submitted can be different.

Friendly names are sometimes called display names.  It's usually the person's real name, rather than their email alias.  They are added to email names with brackets.  For example, this is my name pasted from Outlook. 

Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>

The email field should accept this format as a valid email address. There are a couple of common formats for this type of data.

You are confusing UI and value requirements as far as I can tell.

To be clearer, browsers are allowed to accept whatever they want in the UI, so long as they map it to a valid value in the .value property.  So, accepting friendly names is basically a QoI issue, same as exposing a color well for type=color is.

The value needs to be able to store the whole name.  If the UI accepts Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com> but only stores cyns@microsoft.com, it loses data.  Script authors should not be required to manage this.

That would be a different control that is for both email and name at once (we might need that too, but that would be a new feature). type=email is for a control that just takes an email address as seen on many sites.