Limit character length in text areas

[Luke]

There are several areas in IP.Board that uses a text area as opposed to a rich text editor. Many of these areas have a limited length. Unfortunately all IP.Board does in these areas is truncate the text and add a "..." to the end. It doesn't warn the user when they typed in too much text.

HTML5 supports the maxlength attribute for the text area tag. I'm not sure how this works when using an XHTML doctype, but many of the modern browsers do support this. It would be nice if these text areas implemented this attribute, or restricted the length using Javascript. Alternatively a warning when posting would also be useful.

All this would help people tailor their comments to fit within the defined parameters rather than finding out later that it got cut off.

[bfarber]

Just for reference, I think Luke noticed this in status replies IIRC