[whatwg] Suggested changes to Web Forms 2.0, 2004-07-01 working
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Jul 13 06:45:33 PDT 2004
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote:
>>
>> I don't normally see many companies using a text box for date input,
>> and I couldn't even find one in a quick search, certainly none of the
>> airlines, or banking systems I use regularly do it.
>
> Lexmark uses it in its job application forms.
Fifteen minutes with Google:
Open text box date inputs (including month/year expiry date inputs):
http://literaryconferences.britishcouncil.org/update/
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
http://thesumners.com/sumners/submit.html
http://tropis2005.conferences.gr/index.php?id=969
http://www.bjhc.co.uk/jobs/advertbookingform.htm
http://www.colchestersd.k12.vt.us/Cafe/catering_form.htm
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/forms/drillform.htm
http://www.evickery.com/stagnesweddings/Wedding%20Form.htm
http://www.hawkesbaynz.com/events/add/
http://www.hr.columbia.edu/hr/html/transferapplication.html
http://www.jazzworlddatabase.com/register/register.asp
http://www.kangas.net/form1.htm
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/events/addeditguest.asp
http://www.lakemac.com.au/events_add.asp
http://www.marstonhotels.com/cgi/apply.pl
http://www.ohiodominican.edu/alumni/Submitnews.shtml
http://www.otpco.com/CommunityEvent/CommunityEventSubmit.asp
http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/housing/submit.htm
http://www.parks-sa.co.za/tourism/booking_methods/KNP_reservations/shimuwinireservations.htm
http://www.parsac.org/html/videoreq1.htm
http://www.reikiwithtrust.com/white_treatment_request_form.htm
http://www.rivmediagroup.com.au/classifieds/submit/submit.asp
http://www.savethehenharrier.com/(2nfyaiyzxf24p24514ribima)/GalleryForm.aspx
http://www.shgjobs.co.uk/forms/overseas_hr_form.html
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/learningtravel/sierra/sierra-center/shuttle.html
http://www.sunairexpress.com/europe/db/fltrep_form.html
http://www.unixofficeequipment.com/rentform.htm
http://www.waikiki-condos.com/res_formM1.html
http://www.wcl.american.edu/wcl_events/submit_event.cfm
https://secure.tisltd.co.uk/enrolment.htm
https://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/benefits/medres_fellow_ltd/enrollment_form.html
Open text box time inputs:
http://tropis2005.conferences.gr/index.php?id=969
http://www.apstrategies.org/Travel/TravelRequest.html
http://www.colchestersd.k12.vt.us/Cafe/catering_form.htm
http://www.csindy.com/csindy/listings/
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/forms/drillform.htm
http://www.evickery.com/stagnesweddings/Wedding%20Form.htm
http://www.hawkesbaynz.com/events/add/
http://www.otpco.com/CommunityEvent/CommunityEventSubmit.asp
http://www.reikiwithtrust.com/white_treatment_request_form.htm
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/learningtravel/sierra/sierra-center/shuttle.html
http://www.sunairexpress.com/europe/db/fltrep_form.html
http://www.unixofficeequipment.com/rentform.htm
http://www.waikiki-condos.com/res_formM1.html
https://secure.tisltd.co.uk/enrolment.htm
Frankly, the sheer number of different date and time input methods I came
across easily confirms the need for a standard widget date/time set.
> It's the same problem as with phone numbers, social security numbers
> and other formatted numerical date, and it has the same solution:
> post an example format. Example: MM/DD/YYYY. This is common
> throughout the web. I've even seen popup error messages showing
> format examples.
Most (all?) of the examples above are initially empty, so the trick
that someone (you?) mentioned at some point, of doing:
<input type="date" value="DD/MM/YYYY" ...>
...would work fine. For more sophisticated apps, JavaScript can be used
to insert the example in legacy UAs. (Several of the forms above don't
even have an example at all, so it's not even critical that example text
be included.)
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