- From: Brett Zamir <brettz9@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:25:30 +0800
How about a pull-down for Wikipedia which lets you choose the year or period? Or a charting application which looks at trends in history. While some uses may be more common than others, I personally favor going the extra kilometre to allow full expressiveness for whatever ranges are allowed. Brett On 8/9/2010 9:19 AM, Ben Schwarz wrote: > While creating an input that works for every use case you can think of > sounds like a good idea, I'd like to question weather a user would > ever /enter a date/ that would require the inclusion of BC/AD. > > I'm certain that there is a requirement to markup such text, but as > for /entry/ I'm strongly of the opinion that you're over cooking this. > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Kit Grose <kit at iqmultimedia.com.au > <mailto:kit at iqmultimedia.com.au>> wrote: > > The field being four digits long doesn't restrict its contents to > four digits only. I suppose you do raise an interesting concern; > should the "year" field also permit the entry of BC/AD? If so, > that might invalidate the ability to use a number field; you'd > need to use a validation pattern on a standard text field. > > ?Kit > > On 09/08/2010, at 10:46 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > > > > On Mon, August 9, 2010 00:44, Kit Grose wrote: > >> How is a "year" input any different from a four-digit input > type="number" > >> field? > > > > Years can be more of fewer than four digits. Julius Caesar was > born in 100 > > BC, for instance, while Manius Acilius Glabrio was consul in 91 AD. > > > > -- > > Andy Mabbett > > @pigsonthewing > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100809/58f72792/attachment-0001.htm>
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