28095 2015-02-24 20:34:37 +0000 Half the world uses commas instead of periods as decimal separators. How about requiring user-agents to handle both? Details on browser support here: 2015-08-28 16:02:01 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#number-state-(type=number) P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk dnebdal ian mathias mike zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 118130 0 contributor 2015-02-24 20:34:37 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#number-state-(type=number) Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#number-state-(type=number) Referrer: https://t.co/FqfygG7rf8 Comment: Half the world uses commas instead of periods as decimal separators. How about requiring user-agents to handle both? Details on browser support here: https://www.aeyoun.com/posts/html5-input-number-localization.html Posted from: 84.208.125.29 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 AlexaToolbar/alxf-2.21 118314 1 ian 2015-03-04 21:38:27 +0000 Why would we want to have two wire formats? I don't understand. 118351 2 zcorpan 2015-03-05 12:05:01 +0000 This seems like a bug on some browsers' UI, not a bug with the wire format. 118366 3 dnebdal 2015-03-05 17:30:57 +0000 He never suggested changing the wire format, and I agree with the argument that it's a browser UI failure. Still, the current state of affairs makes using "number" for decimal input hard to recommend unless you know your users will always write decimals with a dot. As for how this relates to the *spec* (as opposed to filing bugs with the browser vendors), there seems to be a few possible approaches: A) Add some wording to strongly suggest that browser UIs should accept both comma and full stop as separators in typed-input contexts where they would accept either of them. B) Add some canonical way to get hold of the raw text value of the field (where one exists), so this can be worked around in javascript. Both are a bit clunky, of course. 119089 4 ian 2015-03-30 22:26:01 +0000 The UI isn't specced at all, that's entirely a UA issue.