Email input no longer supports setting selection

I use an input with type="email" just to give mobile devices a clue to which keyboard they should show. But otherwise I expect the input to behave just like a text input.

I have auto-complete code which needs to set the selection in the input and this is now no longer possible, because the spec for email inputs removes the selectionStart and setSelectionRange methods (no reason being given).

This is a coupling of too many ideas into the type="email" attribute. Ideally, it should be possible to just have an attribute that tells the mobile device what keyboard to use without affecting any other behavior of the input.