Web and WebWorks Development

[sebapalus]

Hello

I have a HTML5 element defined as follows:

<input type="number" min="0.01" step="any" name="foo"/>

When I click on it via BB10 Dev Alpha (10.0.9.1103), I get numeric keyboard (which is good), but without decimal points (which is very bad).

According to http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.number.html floating numbers should be accepted.

On Playbook (2.1.0.1088), the behaviour is even weirder, because it shows me numeric keyboard for a milisecond and then changes to the full one

Is it going to be resolved soon, or we are stuck with input type="text" and JS validation on input?

[chadtatro]

Hello,

I'm checking into this.  I'll report back as soon as I have news.

Thanks!

[chadtatro]

So it looks like yes, the teams are aware of this issue and are working towards correcting it.

[sebapalus]

Great!
If we're on this topic, this "numeric keypad" should be completely changed for a web view. If you're aware of all these, then very good! But I'd like to have a full reference here anyway to avoid creating new tickets for the same issue

In fact input type="number" doesn't allow hexadecimal (A-F) and should allow,besides decimal point, minus ("-") sign (if "min" attribute is set to a non-negative number).

Here's the full definition from W3 data type reference:
A floating-point number consists of the following parts, in exactly the following order:

1. Optionally, the first character may be a "-" character.
2. One or more characters in the range "0-9".
3. Optionally, the following parts, in exactly the following order:
1. a "." character
2. one or more characters in the range "0-9"
4. Optionally, the following parts, in exactly the following order:
1. a "e" character or "E" character
2. optionally, a "-" character or "+" character
3. One or more characters in the range "0-9".

[kamote_empire]

until now with the updated OS this hasn't been resolved

[nunodonato]

I reported this a long time ago in the playbook, too bad its also like this in bb10

[kamote_empire]

how do you report the problem so I can also make a report, I had to make a script to validate the user input the old fashioned way becuase input type-number doesn't have a decimal place

[nunodonato]

I think I did it via github at the time...

you can use some javascript functions like isNaN() to help you workaround it.

[UberApps]

Just wondering if anyone knows if this has been fixed yet in the latest BB10 betas? I don't have a BB10 device, I have a Playbook on OS 2.1 and this issue is a little annoying.

[chadtatro]

The issue is being tracked, there's no update just yet but I'll follow-up with them.