It’s amazing how many login forms are labeled “email” and then don’t have the correct type set.
> Browsers automatically provide validation to ensure that only text that matches the standard format for Internet email addresses is entered into the input box. Browsers use an algorithm equivalent to the following regular expression:
> /^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$/;
Which doesn't even allow all valid email addresses :|
No support for quoted local parts. No support for punycode domains. Disappointing.
Use <input type="text" inputmode="email"> instead to just get the email-optimized keyboard on phones without the misguided validation.
Email is older than absolute majority of active developers and yet, it seems, simple knowledge like "what is email address" remains such an arcane knowledge that you are being looked at weird when present something a tiny little bit more correct than the status quo.
Where else can we assume that the common knowledge is flat out wrong?
Anything you can send an email to that is received, as far as I am concerned. I have my own domain, so why ahould I be forced to add an arbitrarily long string to it to be able to receive the mail? Or exclude <site>@myDomain.com from being input on <site>?
Or the worst of the worst: Disallow all but a few domains for emails.
At this point, not validating it cient side at all is IMO the correct approach, and instead send a verification email.
100% this.
The only acceptable hard validation is to check whether there is an @ between some characters. something like `.@.` in regex.
It makes sense to do sanity checking (soft validation) on client side. There is 99.9% chance that `muppet@gmial.com` is wrong, outright rejecting that is wrong, though.
Really? I tested with a punycode domain on regex101 and it worked fine, do you mean that it only works with ones already converted to punycode?