Re: <input type="date">: not marked at risk

BTW: the HTML5.1 spec has no such "at risk" list (yet):
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/

Silvia.


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Jukka K. Korpela
> <jukka.k.korpela@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>> 2013-09-23 4:52, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>
>>> FYI: being "at risk" has nothing to do with the usefulness of the
>>> feature - the spec's concern is whether there is cross-UA support of
>>> the feature.
>>
>>
>> Which in turn depends on how useful the feature is seen by implementors,
>> doesn't it?
>> And on the amount of work needed for implementation, of course.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Such a feature can be a useful feature (I personally have
>>> used such input types in my recent apps), but its standardisation may
>>> need to be delayed to the next version of HTML if UAs don't have
>>> uniform support of the feature. That's all.
>>
>>
>> According to
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input
>> the support status for type=date is the same as for type=datetime. So there
>> must be
>> something else than the current implementation status that explains why
>> type=date
>> is not marked as being at risk and type=datetime is not.
>
> It's simply a matter of process. At the time that the spec went into
> Last Call, implementations were behind, so the feature was put "at
> risk". Now it's supported, so if tests confirm uniform support, it's
> not at risk any more.
>
> If the HTML5 spec goes back into Last Call, that list can be updated.
>
> Silvia.

Received on Monday, 23 September 2013 06:59:56 UTC