- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:26:15 +0000
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:07:49 +0100, Olav Junker Kj?r <olav at olav.dk> wrote: > Matthew Raymond wrote: > > Some webmasters, however, may want everyone to enter the date in the > > exact same format, for the sake of consistency (which would be useful to > > simplify employee training, for instance). This can be accomplished by > > assigning the value "entry" to the |applyon| attribute: > > This defeats the idea that the datetime control should be localized and > feel native. feel native ?!?!?! The majority of Web UI features don't feel native, Mozilla and Opera use non-native controls (sensible approach to develop multi-platform, but it means they don't follow native conventions often) > Many platform datetime selectors allows the use to select > the date from a calendar and displays it formatted something like > "Saturday, January 22, 2005" in the users language. By constraining the > date control to follow a simple format string, a lot of UI power is > lost. (Btw. the point of hiding the hint for WF2 compliant browsers is > lost if WF2 users should enter data in the exact same format.) > > But I think its a good idea to be able to specify the exact submission > format, since this will make adoption and backwards compatibility easier. > > regards > Olav Junker Kj?r >
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