- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:29:09 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Mike Shaver wrote: >> >> Since the 'time' control on that page can contain pseudo-times like >> 'Any', 'Morning', and so on, a datetime control doesn't make sense >> here. I'd imagine that they'd also retain their existing JavaScript for >> supporting some non-WF2 UA's. > > 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? This is an interesting point. Would the date control benefit from a way of having a few extra types like this added? In fact, maybe whatever solution we come up with to replace <select editable> could be applied to date/time controls to provide these alternative selections. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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