Summary

Hopefully you’ve seen that HTML5 forms offer a huge productivity boost for developers and a consistent experience for users. They offer a ton of features right out of the box that previously would have required a lot of custom coding (such as form validation, or creating slider controls). Implementation is at varying, but increasing, levels in Opera, the WebKit browsers (Safari and Chrome), and beginning in Firefox and IE10. The lack of implementation in IE9 can be faked with JavaScript, as the new features are designed to degrade gracefully.

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