Numeric Fields by mobile Apps

[Scott Klement]

When I use the input type = date on my iPad, it does not show on the screen in YYYY-MM-DD format. Instead, it brings up the iOS native date picker that gives me dials to select the day, month and year.

Is it showing up as a YYYY-MM-DD string for you? Which browser are you using?

[kfritz]

Scott,

Yes, it does(both) FF and Chrome, Android 4.3.
Chrome brings up a date picker like the IOS, FF a calendar popup (similar PUI's).
Field Definition:



btw.
Is it correct, that the mobile client uses a different formatted signon screen?
As it seems, it takes the changed "signonscrn", but applies the blue panel style.
(I changed the signonscrn to an own, "black-panel-style" = common signon).


Thanks,
Karl

[Scott Klement]

Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about the way a browser displays input type = date. The HTML5 spec says that the date is transferred as YYYY-MM-DD over the network, but it's up to the browser to determine how it should be displayed to the user. The HTML5 standard is documented here:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/input.date.html
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339

If the browser chooses to display it in YYYY-MM-DD fashion, there's not much we can do about it. Here is information about how it's handled in Chrome, which seems to have the best support of the desktop browsers at the moment. It will show the date in your local calendar format:
https://plus.google.com/102860501900098 ... TcMLVNKnec

And here's a list of the different versions of the browser, and what level of support they have:
http://caniuse.com/input-datetime

So, it looks like a lot of browsers are lagging behind on supporting this. Perhaps you will need to use our date widget or somethng of your own design rather than the "input type" solution?