I opened a thread in web2py-developers. I think we should support html5 types but we cannot break html4.
On Thursday, 3 January 2013 04:56:33 UTC-6, Alan Etkin wrote: > > El domingo, 30 de diciembre de 2012 18:18:12 UTC-3, Massimo Di Pierro > escribió: >> >> Seems like a good idea. What do other think? If the difference is only in >> the type, could we simply override the value of type using a class variable >> and use the widget method of the base class > > > I belive the former widgets were HTML 4.01 compliant. Wouldn't it be > better to give an optional kwarg to activate HTML5 or a subclass that > implements the new specification? > --

