Think Different

Since W3C published its HTML5 specs in January 2008 many browsers have started their implementation of the improved XML structure and its new attributes. But what does this mean and how can we as developers benefit from all this on a form level? This talk is about implementing HTML5 specific tags in your forms created with Zend_Form. New features HTML5 for forms and validation First of all to clarify the meaning of all these new goodies, we first look at what’s available. HTML4 had a few different input elements that could be added to your form : text, password, hidden, checkboxes etc. HTML5 brings even more types that can be added to your tag. For instance: email url number range Date pickers (date, month, week, time, datetime, datetime-local) search color The email attribute to start with isn’t much of a help in a basic browser that runs on your pc/laptop. It is handy though on a mobile platform as the keyboard changes to a type where the @ sign is not tu...