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Aaron is a UI engineer from Kansas City. In addition to his full-time role at DEG, he’s the co-creator of inputtypes.com, a testing utility for onscreen keyboards, input types and validation patterns, and Yeo+Lab, a scaffolding tool for Pattern Lab. He¹s currently obsessed with front-end performance, workflow tools and build processes. Outside of work and freelance, Aaron is a cliché Kansas City BBQ snob and brews some really bad beer.

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Form Inputs: The Browser Support Issue You Didn’t Know You Had

By inserting a single element in your markup, you can tell any web browser to render an interaction control, and you can completely modify that interaction – from a text field to a checkbox to a radio button – by simply changing a keyword. Now imagine a world where creating these interactions means also creating custom interaction controls, and you begin to realize how taken for granted inputs really are. That’s what the HTML 5.0 specification was intended to solve, by expanding the concept of the text input to allow for specific data types, such as numbers and email addresses, as well as rich interactions, such as task-specific on-screen keyboards and date- and color-pickers. Read more…