Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post2.news.xs4all.nl!newszilla.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail From: Eric Bednarz Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Email Vali8dation Problem Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs References: <3602487.T2d5zBX4El@PointedEars.de> Reply-To: ebednarz@gmx.net X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:30:39 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0H1J0sX8C6y4Cdv7EYgDbBQGcko= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.163.169.80 X-Trace: 1359063036 dreader35.news.xs4all.nl 6345 83.163.169.80:56989 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:18243 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn writes: > Eric Bednarz wrote: >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the >> type-attribute.html#valid-e-mail-address I'm positive that I didn't write that. > The “wilful violation of RFC 5322”, which will result in several valid e- > mail adresses not being considered valid in WHATWG HTML, is another of those > statements that can only be considered a bad joke. One can only hope that > the W3C editors of HTML5 will prevent such WHATWG HTML nonsense from > spreading too far. Holding your breath *is* recommended in this particular case. :-)