Chapter 8: New Forms

The ever-helpful MDN provides a concise and complete guide to the new input types at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/Input/. PPK has detailed tables showing support on the desktop at http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/inputs.html and for mobile devices at http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/inputs_mobile.html.

Ryan Seddon wrote a polyfill for providing HTML5 form capabilities to browsers that don’t support them natively: Find it at https://github.com/ryanseddon/H5F/.

Bruce Lawson’s discussion of autofocus accessibility, “The Accessibility of HTML 5 Autofocus,” is on his blog at http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2009/the-accessibility-of-html-5-autofocus/.

HTML5 Rocks has a good overview of the Constraint Validation ...

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