- From: Ben Schwarz <ben.schwarz@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:19:21 +1000
While creating an input that works for every use case you can think of sounds like a good idea, I'd like to question weather a user would ever *enter a date* that would require the inclusion of BC/AD. I'm certain that there is a requirement to markup such text, but as for * entry* I'm strongly of the opinion that you're over cooking this. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Kit Grose <kit at iqmultimedia.com.au> wrote: > The field being four digits long doesn't restrict its contents to four > digits only. I suppose you do raise an interesting concern; should the > "year" field also permit the entry of BC/AD? If so, that might invalidate > the ability to use a number field; you'd need to use a validation pattern on > a standard text field. > > ?Kit > > On 09/08/2010, at 10:46 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > > > > On Mon, August 9, 2010 00:44, Kit Grose wrote: > >> How is a "year" input any different from a four-digit input > type="number" > >> field? > > > > Years can be more of fewer than four digits. Julius Caesar was born in > 100 > > BC, for instance, while Manius Acilius Glabrio was consul in 91 AD. > > > > -- > > Andy Mabbett > > @pigsonthewing > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100809/5d6f6f48/attachment.htm>
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