- From: Dean Edwards <dean@edwards.name>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:40:35 +0100
fantasai wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Andrew Clover wrote: >> >>> [BTW, 'expdate' should clearly be named 'month'; it is not explicitly a >>> credit card expiry date.] >> >> >> How strongly do people feel about this? The advantage of having it be >> "expdate" is that it is immediately clear what the field is. > > > I don't think that tying a date format down to a semantic is a good idea. > >> I couldn't actually think of another use case for it when I wrote this >> up. > > > Graduation date. A lot of forms want only the month and year, not the date. > ditto time. sometimes you want a precise time (what time is lift-off?) but mostly you want the kind of time that people use day-to-day HH:MM. i started another thread about this already: http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-June/000193.html -dean
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