- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:54:12 +0000
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:57:57 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: > On Jan 28, 2005, at 20:57, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > > It still means that the webmaster has to alter all server-side > > scripting involving dates/times. > > Webmaster starts using a new version of forms and has to tweak the > server side. Isn't that expected? What's the big deal? The problems isn't that they have to tweak the server, the problem is that for all of the legacy clients, which is the vast majority of people using your site for the next 2 years at least will not be WF2 browsers, will get a severely degraded situation to what they currently get. Far from improving the user experience WF2 will be severely harming it. Whilst Ian managed to find a few sites that had plain text inputs for dates, the vast majority use multiple entry elements, simply because that is all that's usable. The input type=date does not degrade usefully. Ian hasn't even been able to make it degrade usefully with lots of javascript! Comparing the situation to netscape 4 authoring is completely wrong, the situation was very different, there weren't over 500million existing UAs with no motivation to upgrade. Jim.
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