Derek

Recent Blog Comments By Derek

• Default To The Numeric, Email, And URL Keyboards On The iPhone

  Posted on Sep 21, 2012 at 6:04 PM

  Apple went and FURTHER messed this up with iOS 6. I had a hack to determine if the browser is iPhone/iPad, and text inputs had an attribute (numkey="1"), and it would change the input type to "number" which would default the keyboard to the numeric one. That was working ok. No... read more »

• Default To The Numeric, Email, And URL Keyboards On The iPhone

  Posted on Oct 19, 2011 at 12:30 PM

  Apple went and messed this up with iOS 5. Now if you have input type=number, it automatically adds commas to the value as thousands separators, and restricts text to numeric characters only. That is fine for truly numeric values, but I was using this to default to the full numeric keyboard (with s... read more »

• Default To The Numeric, Email, And URL Keyboards On The iPhone

  Posted on Jul 28, 2011 at 8:56 AM

  I found that this is handled very inconsistently across browsers. I loved that Apple supported input type=number by displaying the numbers and symbols keyboard (not the telephone keypad). However using type=number has undesired effects in Google Chrome, MS/Mac Safari, and likely others once they s... read more »

• Default To The Numeric, Email, And URL Keyboards On The iPhone

  Posted on Jul 23, 2010 at 1:31 PM

  Thanks for the tip, tried it and worked great! ...until I tried to use it on fields that I've spiced up with items such as a jQuery plug-in -- addClear() ( http://github.com/skorecky/Add-Clear ) And also for a calendar text input that triggers a visual calendar (wouldn't want to use it there anywa... read more »