[whatwg] Type Date

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:30 PM, TAMURA, Kent <tkent at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 06:41, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Opera has native support that mostly works but failed with dates prior
>>> to 1582, last I checked.
>>
>> This seems reasonable. ?Gregorian calendar started in 1582.
>
> ISO 8601 requires Proleptic Gregorian, including year 0000. ?Aside
> from that, the implementation should follow the pertinent
> specification.
>

Disregard that: Proleptic Gregorian is not required, but optional for
ISO 8601. Regardless:-

> That specification in this case is HTML 5 draft. Opera's
> implementation of input type="date", should not, without good reason,
> deviate from what is specified in the draft.

Still stands.

Received on Thursday, 6 May 2010 18:52:15 UTC