On Tuesday 15 March 2016 04:51:50 Markus Holtermann wrote: > > WRT the backwards compatibility issues: > > 2) You're not able to submit an email address that does not pass the new > validator but the old one. --> Unlikely, but when the new field is of > type="email" your rather modern browser will tell you before Django > anyway >
While this is correct, in many of your rather modern web applications Django does not own the front-end, and for web services, a relevant front end doesn't even necessarily exist. So the backward-incompatibility is not horrible, but it exists and needs to be mitigated by a deprecation cycle. Shai
