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From last Thursday to earlier today I held a simple one-question poll about which advanced input types such as date and number web developers are using.
The results are surprising, while I expected date and number to end in first and second place, the most popular type was actually email.
1,349 web developers reacted, and 13% of them indicated they did not use advanced types at all — probably because old IEs are still important to them. The rest gave the following replies; and they could check as many boxes as they liked:
| type | Percentage | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 77% | Unexpected. I thought date or number would win. | |
| number | 50% | |
| date | 44% | |
| tel | 39% | |
| search | 36% | I do not see the point of this type. |
| url | 26% | |
| range | 20% | Expected more support, since it’s the only one that’s near-universally supported. |
| datetime | 14% | |
| time | 8% | |
| datalist | 7% | |
| color | 7% | |
| month | 3% | |
| week | 1% |
This poll helped me greatly in setting my research priorities. For instance, I know now that I should pay extra attention to email, although that won’t help a lot since Safari blatantly lies about its support for this type, and I don’t think you can detect your way around it.
Anway, enjoy.
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