- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:59:31 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Malcolm Rowe wrote: > Ian Hickson writes: >> Let's get back to basics. What exactly are the use cases for needing to >> know if the UA supports an aspect of WF2? > > "Should I deliver this attachment page in a form that uses the replication > model or in a form that provides an explicit 'Add' button with server-side > postback?" The design of the repeating template stuff is such that it should actually fallback on the server-side version in HTML4-compliant UAs, so you shouldn't need that, in theory. > "Should I provide an input-box with an explcit JS popup calendar control, or > should I just use 'type=date'?" Good point... I'll get back to you on this one. > "Can I rely on pattern=... to perform client-side validation, or do I need > to use client-side JavaScript?" You can work this out by testing for |element.pattern|. If it is true, then the UA will test itself, otherwise you can do it manually. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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