<div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/9 Ian Fette ($B%$%"%s%U%'%C%F%#(B) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ifette@google.com">ifette@google.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I don't understand why I would need an <input type=year> to get this right though. If the bank wants something in <span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">$BG/9f(B it can just let the user type in 1985 and convert that via JS to $B><OB(B60$BG/(B, no? If anything, having some sort of picker seems like it would be more complicated. </span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>The problem is that it can't do the inserve of that. What if the user wanted to type in "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">$B><OB(B60$BG/(B" but server only accepts 1985? We want some UI for accepting "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">$B><OB(B60$BG/(B" and automatically convert it to 1985 to submit. But to implement that, UA needs to know that certain text field is accepting year, not some random digits.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>I really don't know if it's worth spending time on something that is such a minor use case, and can frankly be handled fine without a dedicated input type. </div><div><br></div><div>And niwa-san, on every document I've ever filled out for the Japanese government, I've always written 1985<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">$BG/(B instead of </span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">$B><OB(B60$BG/(B and it's yet to cause me any problems ;-) I do understand that there are some sites that want it written in the traditional form, but these seem to be precious few and far between, and frankly are not the sites I would expect to find HTML5 form input elements on anyways if the US government is any indication of moving to new standards...</span></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>But there are users who don't know how to convert from "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">$B><OB(Bxx$BG/(B" to year 19xx (like my parents and grandparents who has to spend at least half a minute recalling their birth years in Gregorian calendar), and only remember their birth years in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">$B><OB(Bxx. Some people even buy a conversion table and keep it in their wallet just so that they can convert between two systems. Forcing them to remember their birth years in 19xx isn't user-friendly and simply a poor UI localization.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Best,</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Ryosuke</span></div></div>