Some of HTML5 features can be used today without worrying about browser support. One of these things is More info at http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html

All I wanted to achieve is to have element The first thing came to my mind is to do like this:

$e = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('email'); $e->setAttrib('type', 'email');

Zend_View_Helper_FormText still renders it as May be a better way is to have all these new helpers Zend_View_Helper_FormEmail, Zend_View_Helper_FormDate, Zend_View_Helper_FormRange ... But lests consider the following patch for Zend_View_Helper_FormText:

Index: .

--- . (revision 664) +++ . (working copy) @@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ $endTag= '>'; }

• $xhtml = '<input type="text"'
• $type = $this->_getType($attribs);

•  $xhtml = '<input type="' . $type . '"'
           . ' name="' . $this->view->escape($name) . '"'
           . ' id="' . $this->view->escape($id) . '"'
           . ' value="' . $this->view->escape($value) . '"'
  

  @@ -81,4 +83,29 @@

   return $xhtml;
  

  }

• private function _getType(array $attribs)
• {
• if(array_key_exists('type', $attribs)) {
• $allowed = array(
• 'email',
• 'number',
• 'url',
• 'range',
• 'search',
• 'color',
• 'date',
• 'week',
• 'month',
• 'time',
• 'datetime',
• 'datetime-local',
• );
• if(in_array($attribs['type'], $allowed)) {
• return $attribs['type'];
• }
• }
• return 'text';
• } }