[whatwg] Type Date

[Garrett Smith]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Schalk Neethling
<schalk at ossreleasefeed.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Are there any talks at the moment whether the type=date input will allow a user to enter a date manually or use the date picker or, should developers fall back to using a standard input field and add the date picker via JavaScript?
>
Opera has native support that mostly works but failed with dates prior
to 1582, last I checked.

Demo with fallback:
http://dhtmlkitchen.com/ape/example/widget/Calendar/

Demo does not implement min/max and could probably take some advantage
of CSS transitions for show/hide effects.

Garrett