[whatwg] type="datetime" demo

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Jul 15 09:28:40 PDT 2004


On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Jim Ley wrote:
>>
>> Given that Netscape 2.0 has been responsible for a total of 0% of the hits
>> on the WHATWG site today, I really don't think that lack of Netscape 2.0
>> compatibility in this demo is of particularily great importance.
>
> Yes, but there are positively hundreds of user agents that don't
> implement getElementsByTagName

None of those were in the stats I examined either. In fact every UA in the
list that I made when you first mentioned this supports the script.


> which is the first thing you use without testing.  Please read the clj
> faq resource quoted in the other post for a workable approach.

I've changed the script to check this and a few other things before going
on and doing its work.


> Indeed, you can even see it in the example - using IE6 ... then return
> to the previous page using the back button, and it says this:
>
> First date and time:  Format: 15/7/4

Oops. Fixed.

Thanks for your input!

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