- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:45:43 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Malcolm Rowe wrote: > > I'd like to propose an additional feature for Web Forms 2, namely the > ability for the author to control - to a limited extent - the submission > format of an <input type=date> control. I'd really like to avoid making the submission format configurable. It adds yet another variable, which makes testing this much harder. (It is already exceedingly complicated.) > What's the use case for this feature? Just one: For sites that have > already deployed a form that accepts dates, this feature would allow > them to provide enhanced support for WF2-compliant UAs with minimal > work. Supporting ISO-8601 on the server side is trivial; a single line of Perl or PHP in the common case. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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