Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Jim Ley wrote: I don't really know what Jim meant (his question isn't comprehensible English) but at a guess, if he was asking whether pressing Enter in a date field should cause submission, that is up to the UA, as is IMHO quite clearly stated in the spec:

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-13 Thread Mikko Rantalainen
Brian Wilson wrote: Some possible user interface realizations (draft) of the date widget: Input type=date popup: http://people.opera.com/brian/testfiles/input-date-popup.png I'd reverse the month and year input elements. - Year numbers, Month labels and day numbers should be localized

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Dean Edwards wrote: Jim wrote: It's not a text box, it's an input type=datetime (say), I'm asking is if that should act the same as a text box w.r.t. to enter submitting the form? I think that is what it says in the spec. Ian? I don't really know what Jim meant

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-13 Thread Dean Edwards
Mikko Rantalainen wrote: - Clicking outside the calendar popup dismisses the popup and uses the current values in the popup as the new date value. This isn't good. How do I cancel? At least, put OK and Cancel buttons in the popup. Look at how a select works. Clicking outside the

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-13 Thread Matthew Thomas
Dean Edwards wrote: ... ** The Platform is Important ** We are taking this into serious consideration when building an IE implementation. Where possible we are trying to replicate the look and feel of Windows. That's very good news. ... - Popup date chooser appearance: Days not in the

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-13 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On 7/13/05, Dean Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Thomas wrote: Dean Edwards wrote: We don't display them. Should we? The native version does. See the Date-Picker section of http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch08c.asp. OK. We'll show

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Matthew Thomas wrote: If you really want to open the popup with the keyboard, you can use the spacebar. (As I mentioned above, the main reason you should want to do this with the keyboard is to look at what days fall on which dates, not for actual selection.) There are

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-13 Thread Olav Junker Kjær
Jim Ley wrote: For example does my user agent which submits form purely under programmitic control with no user keyboard action required to fire the click event or not? I'd say that was submitting the form implicitly more so than pressing enter in a text field. I think the intention of the

[whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-12 Thread Brian Wilson
[I hope my mailer doesn't screw up the formatting too much] Some possible user interface realizations (draft) of the date widget: -- Input type=date widget: http://people.opera.com/brian/testfiles/input-date-widget.png Input type=date widget (disabled):

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-12 Thread Olav Junker Kjær
Dean Edwards wrote: - Date widget appearance: Once the date chooser popup widget has been dismissed, the date in its correct localized format will be displayed I agree but localisation is hard for us. I'm not sure how we are doing that yet. Olav? Thats the easy part. Using the built-in

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-12 Thread Dean Edwards
Olav Junker Kjær wrote: I agree that free-form input is quite nice, eg. if you have to enter your own birth date, its much faster to type than to pick. I really would like to see date widgets allow direct keyboard entry. It's a very important feature for data entry systems. -dean

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-12 Thread Jim Ley
On 7/12/05, Dean Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: On 7/12/05, Dean Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the customisation is just colours and chrome style. We'll attempt to guess the chrome style and replicate it. What I really mean is that we are copying the windows controls