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

[David Dailey]

<input
[magnitude|quantity|quality|time|thing|person|place|action|epistemic|quantif
ier|URI|anaphora|mediatype|direction|influence|...]=attribute-value-expressi
on-with-micro-syntax>

with all appropriate cross-cultural studies underlying each attribute-value.

I am reminded of the Navajo verb system, in which epistemic values
(certainty), influence (transitive/intransitive), deixis (this/that/yonder),
and quantifiers (unique, none, all, some) are not strictly orthogonal. Nle`i
dzilh bits'i`i d'shighan : the unique and well-known hill over yonder,
beyond it there is my house. Were the hill or the direction not well known,
then it might be expressed differently (as I seem to recall). It's maybe a
bad example since bits'i`i could be viewed as a preposition, but heck, it's
been decades since I had a Navajo-speaking hitchhiker in my car (and we
seemed never to agree on etymology)!

What sorts of things might people want to say to us as web-folk? Are not
those all the possible types of input?

Cheers
D


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[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Michael[tm] Smith
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 7:31 PM
To: Ian Hickson
Cc: whatwg; Jonathan Watt
Subject: Re: [whatwg] <input type=number> for year input

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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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