12099 2011-02-16 15:13:45 +0000 Input type=url: value range 2011-08-04 05:01:06 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED INVALID P2 normal --- 1 stalinbulldog ian ayg bzbarsky julian.reschke mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 45711 0 stalinbulldog 2011-02-16 15:13:45 +0000 As per the specification below, it appears that <input type='url' /> fields will not support the special form URL localhost, I believe this to be an oversight as in many cases when querying the user for a url, especially in the case of most post-form applications of this input type, localhost is a perfectly valid response. In example, a user is instructed to enter the information of a database to connect to, usually the response will be in the form of schema://<ipv4 addr> or localhost, however, occasionally it will take the form of a url [very likely one the user agent has encountered before]. Forcing this application to use the type='text' field will under-utilize the information the user-agent may be able to supply to the user. As an aside, thank you for your time in reviewing this. I am quite excited about the new introductions into the html standard this offers as it may help move web development away from reliance on obscure or arcane classes/ids. 4.10.7.1.4 URL state The value attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces that is also an absolute URL 2.6 URLs A URL is an absolute URL if resolving it results in the same output regardless of what it is resolved relative to, and that output is not a failure. An absolute URL is a hierarchical URL if, when resolved and then parsed, there is a character immediately after the <scheme> component and it is a U+002F SOLIDUS character (/). An absolute URL is an authority-based URL if, when resolved and then parsed, there are two characters immediately after the <scheme> component and they are both U+002F SOLIDUS characters (//). To parse a URL url into its component parts, the user agent must use the parse an address algorithm defined by the IRI specification. [RFC3987] 45728 1 bzbarsky 2011-02-16 18:34:14 +0000 Maybe I'm missing something but "localhost" is not a valid url, right? "http://localhost" would be (as would "ssh://localhost" which means something totally different). 45737 2 ayg 2011-02-17 01:05:38 +0000 http://localhost is a valid URL for <input type=url> per the spec as far as I can tell. Why do you think otherwise? 45738 3 stalinbulldog 2011-02-17 01:07:12 +0000 Valid points, closing. 52402 4 mike 2011-08-04 05:01:06 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1