On 18/02/2014 23:09, Jonathan Watt wrote:
When implementing <input type=number> for Mozilla I decided to display the value to the user using the grouping separator (generally the thousands separator) of the users locale. So, for example, if the input's value is 1234 and the user's locale is English, it is displayed to the user as "1,234".This is causing a problem for at least media wiki, because they use <input type=number> for year input. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IRIX&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/newbies The question is, should I change Mozilla's implementation to stop displaying the internal value using grouping separators, or is it wrong to use <input type=number> for year input. I'm erring on the former, but I'd like to solicit others' thoughts on this matter. I should also note that I can still allow the implementation to accept input from the user that contains grouping separators, even if when the internal value is set/changed the visual result will be updated to a string that does not contain grouping separators.
I should also have noted that I did get some early feedback that failing to include grouping separators in the general <input type=number> case would be bad/suboptimal for certain locales, but I can't remember which locales those were at this point. If anyone knows of such locales I'd be interested to hear which.
