HTML 5 Forms

[daffl]

Use HTML 5 forms if supported by the browser

[mattcph]

yes please :)

[mattcph]

For now I added this:

$.dform.addType("textemail", function(options) {
return $("").dformAttr(options);
});

[mattcph]

with the [input type=email] inside that ("") part - have not worked out html stripping in github yet :(

[daffl]

I got that part in my email. That looks like a good idea (would call if just email and put it into the HTML 5 extensions). I want to use Modernizr (http://www.modernizr.com/) to figure out what of HTML 5 is supported by the current browser and build the form accordingly. If you have any other ideas let me know!

[mattcph]

I agree it is not so useful for idiot browsers.

Modernizr is ideal, therefore loading all the new HTML5 form attributes via a plugin/extension.
But I guess it means the dform needs to have fallbacks internally on each new input type for this.

So, this means some backward compatibility...

[daffl]

The problems is, that fallbacks will be located in external dependencies which I didin't want to ship with the plugin itself. It might make sense to create a library that mimics HTML5 fallback behaviour for forms though. I didn't have time to look at how detailed the information is you can get about HTML5 forms from Modernizr yet.

[daffl]

We added a bunch of HTML 5 elements in issue #26. Other HTML 5 elements should be put into specific feature requests.