[whatwg] <input type=number> for year input

[Michael[tm] Smith]

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Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>, 2014-02-18 23:59 +0000:

> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Jonathan Watt wrote:
...
> > I wonder if it would be that bad to have a 'year' type to compliment the 
> > 'month' and 'day' types...
> 
> This has come up a few times, but so far the use cases have not been 
> compelling enough. This is probably the most compelling use case, but even 
> here, I don't know that it's that compelling.
> 
> I would be interested in hearing more about the locales where not using 
> separators even for four digits is bad/suboptimal. If it wasn't for those, 
> I would say that just not using separators for four-digit numbers would be 
> an easy and effective solution.

The following info seems relevant -

  http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/comma.html#numbers
  "Most authorities, including The Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago
  Manual of Style, recommend a comma after the first digit of a four-digit
  number. The exceptions include years, page numbers, and street addresses."

To me that appears to be a strong argument that formatting of years is in
fact clearly an exception, and that's compelling enough to warrant having a
type for them separate from the normal number type (in which four-digit
numbers would instead have a separator, to follow existing longstanding
conventions).

  --Mike

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Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike
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