Potentially catch input type assignment for older browsers?

[jacobmischka]

The new input types are great for progressive enhancement in HTML because if an old browser doesn't support them it just renders a type="text" input, which is perfect. Unfortunately, doing this doesn't work in svelte because (at least in IE9) the input.type = 'search' assignment will throw an error.

If it doesn't make things too filthy it might be nice to try to catch this assignment and fall back to text, but I totally understand if this is considered out of scope and not worth doing.

As always, thank you for everything!

[Rich-Harris]

Gah, didn't realise that caused an error! I wonder if the best solution would be to have a legacy compile option that changed that code to this:

try { input.type = 'search'; } catch (e) {}

// or
setInputType(input, 'search'); // where setInputType does the above

[jacobmischka]

That would be perfect!

[PaulBGD]

+1 for moving to setInputType, previous versions of V8 simply won't optimize functions with try/catch blocks.

[Rich-Harris]

Forgot #778 was still open — released as 1.31!

[jacobmischka]

Woo, thank you!