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Old 02-23-2011, 02:32 PM   #1
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Improve mobile usability by specifying number input fields

Use type="number" on the milage and gallons HTML input fields.

Using type="number" instead of type="text" in the input form elements would make (some) smartphone browsers automatically bring up a numerical keyboard instead of the default qwerty keyboard when entering these numeric values. This should be a tiny tweak and would result in a very noticeable improvement to mobile usability. Here is a good overview of various such options available in HTML:

http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-number
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