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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19064
Summary: 'input type=time' forbids legitimate use case
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: NE, NoReply
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: HTML5 spec
AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org,
public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
public-html@w3.org
This was was cloned from bug 7688 as part of operation LATER convergence.
Originally filed: 2009-09-21 17:20:00 +0000
Original reporter: Carlos Amengual <listas@informatica.info>
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#0 Carlos Amengual 2009-09-21 17:20:52 +0000
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input type=time has the 'max' and 'min' attributes to check the value range.
And 'min' is mandated to be lesser than 'max'. For example,
<input type="time" min="23:00:00" max="01:00:00">
would be considered non-conformant (see
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0832.html).
However, a time of 23:00:00 is not always later than 01:00:00. For night times,
it makes perfect sense to allow times between 23h and 01h.
I suggest to add something like "When min is greater than max, UAs will assume
it to be a valid midnight-crossing interval", after the description of the min
and max attributes.
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#1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-29 07:53:34 +0000
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Interesting feature request.
I haven't added this at this time, because doing so is actually a pretty major
change to the spec (it'd involve a refactoring of the way min="" and max="" are
implemented, as well as some changes to validation, step="", and other aspects
of the spec), but I've noted it as a feature for a future version. It
definitely seems like something that would be reasonably added in the future,
and I don't see why we couldn't add it later (it's a backwards-compatible
change as far as I can tell).
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#2 contributor@whatwg.org 2009-09-29 07:55:12 +0000
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r4034.
Check-in comment: Note the idea of <input type=time> having an allowed range
crossing midnight.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4033&to=4034
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#3 Carlos Amengual 2009-09-29 16:43:25 +0000
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(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't see why we couldn't add it later (it's a backwards-compatible
> change as far as I can tell).
Not sure. If the proposed change cannot be done at this time, perhaps adding
something like "authors should note that setting min>max on a form field is not
a valid way to alter form behaviour" could make sense, to avoid misuses that
could break with future changes.
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#4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-29 22:40:32 +0000
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The spec currently says:
"The max attribute's value (the maximum) must not be less than the min
attribute's value (its minimum).
If an element has a maximum that is less than its minimum, then so long as the
element has a value, it will either be suffering from an underflow or suffering
from an overflow."
...so validators will flag this as an error for now, which should help with
your concern.
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#5 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:51:32 +0000
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#6 Carlos Amengual 2010-04-19 10:33:36 +0000
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I did not receive any email with the text in comment #5, so could not reply in
time.
This bug has the status of VERIFIED/LATER, hope this means that the "no longer
a pending comment" policy does not apply. At least, not in the sense that it
won't be considered in the future, as the current behaviour in the spec breaks
POLA: for example, you can filter between 22 and 23 hours, but not the next
hour between 23 and 0.
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