On 06/09/13 15:27, Asa Dotzler wrote:
> On 9/6/2013 7:06 AM, Matt Basta wrote:
>> The point has been missed: Brick, in many cases, *is* the polyfill.
>> Brick makes doing things that developer want and need easier, because
>> the web is a blank slate and developers don't want to start from
>> scratch. Firefox and Firefox OS still don't support <input
>> type="date"> and nobody wants to use jQuery UI, but you can use the
>> <x-datepicker> component instead. I'd expect to see brick components
>> that polyfill the incredibly frustrating lack of other HTML5 inputs
>> in Gecko (<input type="color">, anybody?), and I'd also expect to see
>> Brick fill in some of the controls that Android and iOS provide to
>> app developers that are either non-existant on the web or not
>> developer friendly (slide-out hamburger menus, anybody?). Potch has
>> informally demoed to me some really cool components that, IIRC, solve
>> some of the biggest issues that Facebook brought up when they
>> switched their apps from HTML5 to native.
> 
> Why don't we have <input type="date"> and <input type="color">?  Who is
> determining priorities for Gecko features these days? Why are we
> building polyfills rather than implementing the standard?

<input type='date'> is implemented in Firefox OS and Firefox for
Android. <input type='color'> is being worked on too by a volunteer that
I am mentoring. You can already kind of use it on MacOS and Linux if you
turn on the flag. I wrote a draft patch for Windows too.

This said, working on <input type=date> for Desktop was considered not a
high priority during a DOM work week ~6 months ago and <input
type=color> is obviously not the most important features developers are
waiting for.

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Mounir
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