- From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-what@farside.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:17:58 +0100
Mike Shaver wrote: >Many, many uses of time-controls have these annotations; all day for >events, Morning/Afternoon/Evening, Any, etc. If, say, 80% of the >time-entry widgets on the web are going to have to be custom anyway, >do we get a lot of value out of specifying -- and browser developers >out of implementing -- a time input type? > > I'm not sure what proportion of time (or datetime) widgets would contain 'pseudo-times' like those mentioned. I suspect that it would be much lower than the 80% figure, though. Datetimes are likely to be used to record events, or set reminders, I would have thought. While something like an 'appointment' is likely to have an 'all day' option, I'd guess it would be handled just like Outlook does it at the moment: as a separate checkbox that changes the start/end times from 'datetime' type to 'date' type. In this context, I don't think browser developers are that important (sorry!); but you're right to ask whether there's any value for the end user. I'm sure Ian has use cases for a 'time' type, though I'll confess I can't think of any obvious ones. Ian: this seems to be a recurring theme; could you possibly publish a short summary of the use cases for each of the new WF2 features? It seems like a lot of the use cases have only been discussed privately. Regards, Malcolm
Received on Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:17:58 UTC