- From: Jonathan Castello <twisolar@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 18:49:56 -0700
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, August 9, 2010 02:19, 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. > > It took only seconds to find: > > ? http://www.guernsey.net/~sgibbs/roman.html > > which requires (for some dates) entry of 1, 2, and 3-figure and BC years. > > Likewise: > > ? http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html > > ? "Please enter a year after A.D. 325" > > > Consider also a site allowing a search of an archive of archaeological > finds by year of origin. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > Couldn't the BC/AD case be handled intuitively by a dropdown right next to the year field that contains those two options? -- ~Jonathan Castello P.S. I'm new to the list, don't kill me!
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