578823 - Block phone numbers from being submitted onto Input

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Input :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Uhh... http://input.mozilla.com/search/?q=stephen&product=firefox

We should parse for phone number syntax. Some examples of how to do this can be found at 

http://diveintopython.org/regular_expressions/phone_numbers.html

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Really? I think we are getting into a spiral of blocking random stuff now. You know that American phone numbers have a different format than most others in the world?

Comment 2

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Ah, I should have been a bit more clear. We shouldn't block all of those instances, but a few more common ones that we're sure won't result in useful types of feedback being blocked. For example, (xxx) xxx-xxxx or xxx-xxx-xxxx. 

Can you think of a useful form of feedback that might be blocked by the phone number syntax mentioned above?

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Can you think of a useful form of feedback that might be blocked by the phone
> number syntax mentioned above?

Not really, but I do think people who ignore the current warning will probably not adhere to a common spelling of their phone number. Likewise, given we are now localizing things, protecting against US-only numbers only seems silly.

In short, phone numbers are a case I wouldn't worry about currently.

Comment 4

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Aye, I've thought about the l10n piece before and filed the bug even with that use case. You're right though, the cost is a bit too high in terms of investigation. I'm ok with lowering this until we can find a proper implementation for it. We still have the warning message on the submission forms in the meantime.