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Using type="url" instead of type="text" would make life a lot easier when logging in via iPhones and Android Phones (mobile Safari, in general).

Other browsers ignore it and pretend it's type="text", so no harm done.

See http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-url for examples.

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ok, I added type="url" to the <input> field on the login page.

edit: Backing this change out. Causing lots of spurious bug reports from new-ish browsers that enforce URLs rigidly to "must start with http://" rather than using it as an input aid.

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    From the source: "There is no markup required to activate HTML5 form validation; it is on by default. To turn it off, use the novalidate attribute." Can we have it back now?
    – user140178
    Jul 16, 2011 at 23:54
  • @soumya nice! that will definitely help!
    – Jeff Atwood
    Jul 17, 2011 at 3:20
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OpenID identifier can be not only URL, look at XRI. Currently, it's impossible to enter such IDs in Google Chrome 5.0. It's exotic, yes...

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