- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:45:33 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote: >> >> I don't normally see many companies using a text box for date input, >> and I couldn't even find one in a quick search, certainly none of the >> airlines, or banking systems I use regularly do it. > > Lexmark uses it in its job application forms. Fifteen minutes with Google: Open text box date inputs (including month/year expiry date inputs): http://literaryconferences.britishcouncil.org/update/ http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php http://thesumners.com/sumners/submit.html http://tropis2005.conferences.gr/index.php?id=969 http://www.bjhc.co.uk/jobs/advertbookingform.htm http://www.colchestersd.k12.vt.us/Cafe/catering_form.htm http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/forms/drillform.htm http://www.evickery.com/stagnesweddings/Wedding%20Form.htm http://www.hawkesbaynz.com/events/add/ http://www.hr.columbia.edu/hr/html/transferapplication.html http://www.jazzworlddatabase.com/register/register.asp http://www.kangas.net/form1.htm http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/events/addeditguest.asp http://www.lakemac.com.au/events_add.asp http://www.marstonhotels.com/cgi/apply.pl http://www.ohiodominican.edu/alumni/Submitnews.shtml http://www.otpco.com/CommunityEvent/CommunityEventSubmit.asp http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/housing/submit.htm http://www.parks-sa.co.za/tourism/booking_methods/KNP_reservations/shimuwinireservations.htm http://www.parsac.org/html/videoreq1.htm http://www.reikiwithtrust.com/white_treatment_request_form.htm http://www.rivmediagroup.com.au/classifieds/submit/submit.asp http://www.savethehenharrier.com/(2nfyaiyzxf24p24514ribima)/GalleryForm.aspx http://www.shgjobs.co.uk/forms/overseas_hr_form.html http://www.stanfordalumni.org/learningtravel/sierra/sierra-center/shuttle.html http://www.sunairexpress.com/europe/db/fltrep_form.html http://www.unixofficeequipment.com/rentform.htm http://www.waikiki-condos.com/res_formM1.html http://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl_events/submit_event.cfm https://secure.tisltd.co.uk/enrolment.htm https://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/benefits/medres_fellow_ltd/enrollment_form.html Open text box time inputs: http://tropis2005.conferences.gr/index.php?id=969 http://www.apstrategies.org/Travel/TravelRequest.html http://www.colchestersd.k12.vt.us/Cafe/catering_form.htm http://www.csindy.com/csindy/listings/ http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/forms/drillform.htm http://www.evickery.com/stagnesweddings/Wedding%20Form.htm http://www.hawkesbaynz.com/events/add/ http://www.otpco.com/CommunityEvent/CommunityEventSubmit.asp http://www.reikiwithtrust.com/white_treatment_request_form.htm http://www.stanfordalumni.org/learningtravel/sierra/sierra-center/shuttle.html http://www.sunairexpress.com/europe/db/fltrep_form.html http://www.unixofficeequipment.com/rentform.htm http://www.waikiki-condos.com/res_formM1.html https://secure.tisltd.co.uk/enrolment.htm Frankly, the sheer number of different date and time input methods I came across easily confirms the need for a standard widget date/time set. > It's the same problem as with phone numbers, social security numbers > and other formatted numerical date, and it has the same solution: > post an example format. Example: MM/DD/YYYY. This is common > throughout the web. I've even seen popup error messages showing > format examples. Most (all?) of the examples above are initially empty, so the trick that someone (you?) mentioned at some point, of doing: <input type="date" value="DD/MM/YYYY" ...> ...would work fine. For more sophisticated apps, JavaScript can be used to insert the example in legacy UAs. (Several of the forms above don't even have an example at all, so it's not even critical that example text be included.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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