[whatwg] Input type for phone numbers

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Mar 31, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Peter Kasting wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu>  
> wrote:
> I agree that entering a week is pretty rare, though.  ;)
>
> As someone working on supporting new input types in WebKit:  
> Supporting any one form of "date" is nontrivial, but supporting the  
> rest after you support the first _is_ trivial.  So while I'm on the  
> "week is not that useful" bandwagon, it'll be simple to support once  
> "date" is supported.

It depends on the quality of implementation you want to deliver. With  
a nice visual date picker, the UI for picking a month or a week is  
probably quite different from the UI for picking a day, which in turn  
would be different from the UI for picking a time, or a date and time  
together. For instance, a day picker would probably only show you  
month or possibly a 2 or 3 months at a time, whereas that would not  
make sense for a month picker. Just having a type-in box with no  
visual picker would result in a control that would likely not be  
usable for the kinds of sites where you enter dates.

Regards,
Maciej

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