- From: Bronislav Klučka <Bronislav.Klucka@bauglir.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:24:26 +0100
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 30.1.2013 21:55, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > Hi, > > In my war against useless input types, I had a look at 'month' and > 'week' and I am wondering what was the rationale behind having them in > the HTML specifications. > > Regarding 'month', I mostly don't understand the use case. I can't find > any situation where I am asked to input a { month, year } information. > Given that the element is pretty trivial to implement by authors (this > is basically two <select> or a select and a <input type='number'>), the > only advantage I see to have this element in the specifications is to > have a native UI on mobile. > I am wondering if use cases were taken into account when this was added > to the specs and if vendors that implement this element can report good > adoption if any. > > I can see niche use cases for 'week' but I do not think it is easy to > come up with a good UI for this, especially on mobile (there is no > native UI on mobile AFAIK). On desktop, Chrome's UI is terrible but the > Opera one is decent. > This type would solve the use cases of people trying to find a week to > meet. Typically, W3C F2F's. However, this is a niche use cases. Most of > the times, when people speak in 'week', they don't really mean from > Monday to Sunday. For example, if someone takes a vacation "the first > week of February", he/she will not book its hotel for the week 5 or 6 > but from a specific day to another specific day. > > Generally speaking, I believe both those types lack use cases and I > wonder if the HTML specifications are not defining a solution for > something that is still looking for its problem. > In other words, are authors writing their own 'month' and 'week' widget > at the moment? If they are, would there life be easier with those input > types? > > Thanks, > -- > Mounir You really cannot find any usecase? I use Chrome's week and month (and other) regularly... month data: events within a month, articles published in given month, users registered in given month, money spent in selected month... week span: I do not want my users to count what is the monday 3 weeks from now or have to select 2 days when all they want to say is exactly 1 week the same goes for other types other combinations. sure user can select a day within week or within month... 1/ that is confusing, if user chooses november 2013 I want user to see november 2013, not 8th november 2013 2/ app would have to determin the boudaries, extract month or compute which week is it (e.g. if I have week statistics computed I have data for 31W2013 as a one identifier) B.
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