On 7/12/19 16:20, John R. Levine wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019, Marc Blanchet wrote:
With respect to the HTML5 pattern for e-mail addresses, I have talked to people in WHATWG about it. That pattern is correct for ASCII addresses and it's not going to change to an EAI pattern because that would lead to web sites with ASCII mail systems accepting addresses to which they can't send mail. They would be open to adding a new "eaimail" input type that accepts EAI addresses, to allow an easy upgrade when sites have EAI capable back ends.
Nothing is going to happen in WHATWG until one of their large members says they'll implement it which hasn't happened. I've made some inquiries and gotten polite responses, but I can't do much more since I have no funding.
from https://w3c.github.io/test-results/html53/implementation-report.html, done back in september, Firefox seems to support, while others were not tested.
Ah, that is as we say a can of worms.
The actual HTML spec that major browser vendors implement is the WHATWG living standard. W3C copies that spec verbatim into their own standard, except that they make some incompatible changes. WHATWG has repeatedly asked W3C not to do that, but W3C persists.
Happily, W3C and WHATWG have agreed that the WHATWG living standards should be authoritative, and that W3C will no longer publish a conflicting document. https://www.w3.org/blog/2019/05/w3c-and-whatwg-to-work-together-to-advance-t... --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wseltzer@w3.org +1.617.715.4883 (office) Strategy Lead, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) https://wendy.seltzer.org/ +1.617.863.0613 (mobile)