[Phpmyadmin-devel] about input type="date"

[Marc Delisle]

Le 2014-01-22 07:33, Viduranga Wijesooriya a écrit :
> Marc,
> Then you can add my patch for the time being.
>
> Viduranga Wijesooriya

Viduranga,
no, it will be cleaner to just remove the 'input type="date"'.

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info
> <mailto:marc at infomarc.info>> wrote:
>
>     Le 2014-01-20 10:38, Isaac Bennetch a écrit :
>      >
>      >
>      > On 1/20/14 8:04 AM, Marc Delisle wrote:
>      >> Hi,
>      >> Please have a look at [0]. The issue is about input type="date".
>     This
>      >> gives a nice date validation in Chrome, but blocks Chrome users from
>      >> pasting dates.
>      >>
>      >> I suggested to keep this input type but add a checkbox so that a
>     user
>      >> can revert to input type="text".
>      >>
>      >> Comments?
>      >>
>      >> [0] https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/bugs/4218/
>      >
>      > My vote is to optimize the page for each browser; Chrome gets a
>     "text"
>      > field and other browsers get "date". My second choice is to
>     revert this
>      > field to input type "text" should the "different versions for
>     different
>      > browsers" implementation be problematic.
>      >
>      > Reasoning:
>      >
>      > 1) I'd prefer to avoid adding the checkbox; it is reasonable but my
>      > preference would be to solve (or workaround) the problem in a way
>     that
>      > doesn't add more complexity to the user. Adding the checkbox
>     means we've
>      > cluttered the user interface for an option that most users won't
>     change
>      > regularly (as in, they may set it once, but won't flip back and
>     forth).
>      >
>      > 2) The date type is designed so browsers can present an optimized
>      > interface. Chrome's seems to be broken (because it prevents
>     copy/paste)
>      > and we can't expect them to fix it, so we should work around it while
>      > preserving the correct type for other browsers.
>      >
>      > 3) We already have the datepicker, so allowing the browser to
>     also show
>      > their own date picker is redundant; most browsers don't yet implement
>      > this functionality so I don't think it takes anything away from
>     the user
>      > by keeping it as "text" and forcing them to use our datepicker. They
>      > don't lose functionality.
>      >
>      > We may elect to perform client-side date validation on this field[1],
>      > but in general we don't do much validation anyway[2].
>      >
>      > 1 - The rules of date validation can get rather complex with
>     regards to
>      > leap years, leap days, missing days, and so on. How thoroughly we
>     want
>      > to check a date is another matter entirely.
>      >
>      > 2 - Several months ago I added a related item to Marc's "Interface
>      > Improvements" GSoC project for "Improved notification when
>     attempting to
>      > insert invalid data", so this may be improved soon.
>      >
>
>     Let's remove the 'input type="date"' because it's not cross-browser and
>     causes unwanted side effects as in bug #4218.
>
>     GSoC's project should improve our situation in this regard.
>
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