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Posted by: jimlongo Dec 27 2010, 11:43 AM

Since i do most of my surfing from home on an ipad I especially like the email form attribute which switches your virtual keyboard into a customized email input keyboard for forms requiring addresses . . . At no cost to non-html5 browsers.

http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-email

The article also includes some other handy modifications to form inputs including data sliders and javascript controls.

Posted by: crowdogs Dec 27 2010, 02:33 PM

This is cool, as most things with HTML5, so I've added it to this page: http://www.swhsupply.com/subscribe.htm, but since, my only Apple is an iPod I can't really say if it works, though I can say that it doesn't work with my Droid.

Posted by: jimlongo Dec 27 2010, 02:42 PM

Have you installed Skyfire? It supports some of HTML5.

Posted by: jimlongo Dec 27 2010, 02:58 PM

As you can see here it works on your page
IPB Image

Posted by: crowdogs Dec 27 2010, 03:00 PM

Just did, and it appears that neither Skyfire nor Opera Mobile support it... yet. I suspect that it's just a matter of time before it's universally supported. It's a small thing, but as you well know, it is convenient.

Posted by: crowdogs Dec 27 2010, 03:02 PM

QUOTE(jimlongo @ Dec 27 2010, 02:58 PM)

As you can see here it works on your page

Cool! Thanks for the test!

Though I'm not exactly happy with the way the menu displays in an iPad. I'll have to address that.