Current html5 date input type doesn't cover some major browser like FF & IE

http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime

So +1 for using JqueryUI option.

If you want to have future proof version, you can use both using modernizr
 script (http://modernizr.com/) and fallback if html5 doesn't support in
native.



*Dakshika Jayathilaka*
Software Engineer
WSO2, Inc.
lean.enterprise.middleware
0771100911


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Amal Gunatilake <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dakshika,
>
> For now it is used to pick up a specific date.
>
> Thank you  & Best regards,
>
> *Amal Gunatilake*
>  Software Engineer
> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
> lean.enterprise.middleware
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Dakshika Jayathilaka <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Is this use to pick up date only or for date range ?
>>
>> *Dakshika Jayathilaka*
>> Software Engineer
>> WSO2, Inc.
>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>> 0771100911
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Amal Gunatilake <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> In the BPMN Humantask UI, in certain task completion forms, we need to
>>> add the date picker to get the user input.
>>>
>>> Following are the options available
>>>
>>> 1) Use the JQueryUI library to generate the date picker (via adding
>>> JQueryUI JS library).
>>> 2) Use the HTML 5 date picker html tag ( <input type="date"/> ).
>>>
>>> If we use the 2nd option then the date picker will only work with HTML 5
>>> supportive browsers and this will finally return the date format
>>> as"yyyy-mm-dd", but the backend need the input as "dd/mm/yyyy" format. So
>>> we may have to again reformat the initial input via a JS script.
>>>
>>> Where as JQuery UI will support in any browser and give us the option to
>>> format the date using the inbuilt method $.datepicker.formatDate(
>>> "yy-mm-dd", inputDate ). If we use JQuery UI in future we might be able to
>>> use this library in displaying graphs, etc.
>>>
>>> Please let us know your feedback on what is the best option to go ahead
>>> with.
>>>
>>> Thank you  & Best regards,
>>>
>>> *Amal Gunatilake*
>>>  Software Engineer
>>> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
>>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>>>
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