These e-mails aren't intended for me, but I keep receiving them.
Ted Knoy
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:57 AM, James Ducker <james.duc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only issue I've found so far is that Safari's implementation of the
> date type sucks. It gives you little up/down chevrons which add or subtract
> one day at a time. So my working code also treats Safari as
> datepicker-not-implemented.
>
> For me, as I make use of the valueAsDate property when it's available, it
> made more sense to check its existence directly.
>
> Also, Chrome's date picker is pretty annoying when you're trying to enter
> DOBs. As far as I can see there's no quick way to jump forward/backward by
> decades at a time.
>
> On 2 July 2012 11:11, Patrick H. Lauke <re...@splintered.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 02/07/2012 01:55, James Ducker wrote:
>>
>> element.valueAsDate
>>>
>>> This property is designed to solve your locale woes, and it is also an
>>> easy way to feature-detect a browser's native support for the date input
>>> type. I haven't gone through all current browsers yet, so if you do use
>>> this method, make sure to check that none of your browsers support the
>>> property without implementing a date picker.
>>>
>>> .valueAsDate, as you might have guessed, returns the input's value as a
>>> Date object. Here's a super-simple feature detect:
>>>
>>> if ( !myElement.valueAsDate ) {
>>> // Implement my JavaScript datepicker
>>> }
>>>
>>
>> You can also simply test if the "type" of your input is reported as
>> "date". Older browsers that don't implement the new HTML5 types simply fall
>> back to changing them - in the DOM itself - to type="text"
>>
>> if (!myElement.type === "text") {
>> // fallback
>> }
>>
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