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Bug 26503 - better validation check "/^([\w-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([\w-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/"
Summary: better validation check "/^([\w-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2014-08-02 20:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-08-04 17:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-08-02 20:51:25 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#e-mail-state-(type=email)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#e-mail-state-(type=email)
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
better validation check
"/^([\w-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([\w-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z
]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/"

Posted from: 59.88.54.92
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-08-04 17:46:36 UTC 
Using \w is not better, because there's no guarantee that different systems will have the same idea of what \w means.