[whatwg] Suggested changes to Web Forms 2.0, 2004-07-01 working

Matthew Raymond mattraymond at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 9 07:05:49 PDT 2004


Jim Ley wrote:
> Oops, not possible for me I'm afraid, the no-javascript is more
> important than the javascript enabled, once we have javascript enabled
> we can do anything.
[Snip!]
>><label>Date: <input type="date" name="date1" value="MM/DD/YYYY"></label>
> 
> This does not work for me, since it prevents me having a default
> value.  (such as happens when you return to a form after a submission
> failure).

Well, how about this:

<label>Date: <input type="date" name="date1" value="07/09/04"></label>
<ignore>(Format: MM/DD/YYYY.)</ignore>

[Matthew sees Ian coming with a big stick and starts running...]



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