[UA-EAI] WhatWG issue regarding <input type="email"> is open (#4562)

[Jim DeLaHunt]

EAI colleagues:

Update on WhatWG issue /Validating internationalized mail addresses in 
<input type="email">/ #4562 <https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4562>:

Addison Phillips has posted Pull Request #5799 /Fix #4562: add support 
for internationalized email addresses/
<https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5799> on 7. Aug 2020.

To summarise the pull request, it appears to give new ABNF — which is 
not ASCII-limited and which is permissive of internationalized email 
addresses — for the "email" syntax in <input type="email">, and to 
delete the note about regular expression which is ASCII-limited. It 
appears to retain the current "email" type, instead of creating a new 
type like "eaimail".

What does this mean for us? I'm not familiar with the WhatWG review 
process. From looking at the PR boilerplate, which has blank spaces 
labelled "At least two implementers are interested (and none opposed)", 
and "Implementation bugs are filed", the advocacy work which the EAI WG 
is attempting is still very necessary. It seems to me that the 
contribution of this PR is that it moves the discussion from agreeing in 
principle to discussing a specific proposal.

Best regards,
       —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada


On 2020-06-06 18:21, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
> EAI colleagues:
>
> Back on 26. May we talked about a FY21 goal of participating in the 
> WHATWG process to ask them to improve their spec for '<input 
> type="email">' in HTML, because it is limited to ASCII-only.
>
> Our friend John Levine had opened an issue about this back in April 2019:
>
> Validating internationalized mail addresses in <input type="email"> #4562
> <https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4562>
> Opened 23 April, 2019.
>
> There is a little discussion there, and there could be more.
>
> This issue report refers back an ancestor in the previous bug database:
>
> Bug 15489 "forms: <input type=email> validation needs to be updated 
> for EAI".
> <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15489>
> Opened 2012. Discussion in 2012-2018. Closed in 2019 when the old bug 
> tracker was closed down.
>
> I'm not proposing any specific action right now. I just want to get 
> these links to everyone for background reading and for situational 
> awareness. Best regards,
>       —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver Canada
>
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