- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:10:05 -0500
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Garrett Smith<dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote: > HTML 5 defines input type="date" as an input state. This is > implemented in at least one userAgent (Opera). Which other browsers > have implemented that? No one else, in their public releases. I don't keep track of nightlies much, so I'm not sure if anyone has the functionality sitting there waiting to be included. > It seems like the added value to the programmer for valueAsDate > appears to be convenience method to format to/parse from ISO 8601, but > place on input as a behavior property, and working only when the input > is in the "date" state. For setting[1], the convenience appears to be > to set a date value when the Date's [[value]] is "valid", although a > "valid" date does not seem to be mentioned, much less clearly defined, > and the reference links to [GREGORIAN] are broken[1]. > > I can't see much other reason for having valueAsDate. Am I missing something? > > [1]http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#valid-date-string Do you need much more reason than that it lets you conveniently convert between the date string and a Date? ~TJ
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