- From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
- Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 07:24:58 +0100
- To: Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org>, whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org> writes: > is it wrong to use <input type=number> for year input. I am certainly not an expert on the topic, but I believe the conceptual problem can be reduced to using an input designed for a group (in the mathematical sensce) to represent a value that is torsor. Quote <http://ro-che.info/articles/2013-01-08-torsors.html>: > While adding two dates is not possible, it is possible to add a time > interval to a date («five days from today»). This suggests that we > should not confound dates and time intervals — they are different > types of values. Therefore asking for a duration using <input type=number> is fine – asking for a calendar year, however, is obviously a type error. <http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/torsors.html> -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
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