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- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:14:17 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12902 Summary: Simplify input types (remove excessive date types) and add format attribute Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Windows NT Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: rasamassen@gmail.com QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Numerous developers are not understanding this number of date types an input can have and their control over the format. Developers want a clear way to control the format of the date (like if displaying time, the ability to control whether it uses am/pm or allows milliseconds). Moreover, people want to be able to control the color format and the number format as well. I, personally, don't like the way I feel constrained by these new input types, particularly limited to having to create an extra radio if I want to display am/pm for languages that naturally expect am/pm over a 24hour clock. Propose: Remove all datetime types except "datetime". Add an attribute called "format" which applies to "color", "number" and "datetime" OR use the pattern attribute to achieve format functionality (these three types would have a limited set of formats/patterns like those proposed below rather than regex patterns, with datetime possibly having pattern options like PHP or like Java for simplicity, or use Microsoft's descriptions http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1.aspx). Examples: <input type="color" format="hex"> #000000 <input type="color" format="rgba"> 255, 0, 0, 0.2 <input type="color" format="hsl"> 120, 50%, 50% <input type="number" format="integer"> 1234 <input type="number" format="float" lang="fr"> 1 234,845 <input type="number" format="decimal(2)"> 1234.84 (only allows 2 decimal precision) <input type="datetime" format="longdate"> Friday, September 12, 1980 () <input type="datetime" format="shortdate" lang="en-GB"> 21/09/1980 -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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