I think these are useful.
An orthoganal issue ... 'way back on my back burner has been the notion of writing a new datatype for the form builder that handles our existing HTML/plaintext textarea boxes cleanly and without the need for the programmer building a form-handling page to do the work explicitly.
Among other things this would lead to uniformity in how such textareas are presented to the user, and in how they're handled by the submit code.
Do you have any interest in combining your ideas into a new smart text input type in the form builder? Or are you already way ahead of me and doing this :)
