Is it okay to use <input type="tel"/> now?

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Published on 2010-05-11T19:55:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 20:04 UTC
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I'm working on a mobile phone web app and I have several text fields that could benefit from iPhone's will adjust the keyboard for the user but I'm worried about breaking backwards compatability. What I'm hoping is that browsers/phone that support this can assist the user and other browser will fall back to a standard text field? Is this an acceptable practice? Does it even work?

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