Text input minlength - no support on browsers yet ? w3 sarcastic on twitter ;-) http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/forms.html-maxlength-and-minlength-attributes - 2015 Opera 27 supports it, now also Chrome, still Mozilla not

Correct way.The [minLength] facet configures the default value of [ic.minlength]. If no HTML5 support then the server will validate
Only [ic.minlength], no facet, not suggested, also support at HTML5 level only by Opera and Chrome for now