WHATWG calls for 'Last' Comments on Web Forms

hixie writes " The W3C recently acknowledged a version of the Web Forms 2.0 draft submitted to the W3C by Mozilla and Opera. Meanwhile the WHATWG has updated the Web Forms draft and released a new call for comments. Send them in!"

Re:What Working Group??

[AntsInMyPants]

From the main page linked to in the article...

What is the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group?

It is a loose unofficial collaboration of Web browser manufacturers and interested parties who wish to develop new technologies designed to allow authors to write and deploy Applications over the World Wide Web.

The working group mailing list is an open subscription public mailing list and anyone is welcome to contribute.

The focus of this working group is limited to technologies that will need to be directly implemented in Web browsers. It is not the right forum for very domain-specific proposals that would not be suitable for implementation in, for instance, Safari, Firefox, or Opera.

Input validation schemes

[Magic Thread]

From W3C's summary:

The ability to mark a form field as required (ie. the user must complete the field before the form is submitted).

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but can anyone else see lazy PHP coders relying on this, and forgetting to do proper server-side input checking? I mean, essentially you're just having to check everything twice... what was wrong with returning a page informing the user of his or her mistakes, exactly?

Re:Input validation schemes

[hhlost]

It's a little faster for the user (instant feedback on any mistakes), and it saves a tiny bit of server resources.

Depends on what's being uploaded. If it's large, then it could be a lot faster for the user and save a lot of server resources.