<input type="search"> not working in web container

[Kyle Nitzsche]

The Ubuntu HTML5 UI gallery demos types of input fields, including one useful for searches. It is declared like this:

<input type="search" placeholder="search field">

When in chromium, this field has an 'x' that displays after typing and allows the user to delete all text from the field.

This 'x' does not display when ubuntu-html5-app-launcher is the container.

It should.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

I suppose this is a limitation of qtwebkit currently. Unless the W3C specification makes that behavior mandatory I don't think that it is a genuine bug. However, you should test with the Oxide engine coming soon, as it will probably resolve this issue.

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Until the oxide fix lands (and if it does not land), it is also a bug in the Ubuntu HTML5 UI Gallery. The Gallery in our current web container demos a 'search' field, but it appears to be no different than a plain text field.