[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Native browser date / time selectors in Angular?

[Dan Scott]

The Browser Support section agrees with caniuse.com about the lack of
support in Firefox for datetime-local:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/datetime-local#Browser_compatibility

But date looks good and usable (per the live examples on the corresponding
MDN page). Time is functional but I'm not sure it's as friendly as the
ng-bootstrap implementation.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:18 PM Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:

> First, +1M to using the builtins!
>
> However, I just fired up Firefox to test empirically and I'm getting
> the default text input.  CanIUse
> (https://caniuse.com/#search=input-date) seems to agree that FF isn't
> yet there with datetime-local, sadly.
>
> Hopefully soon?  (Or we could drop FF support... j/k, mostly.)
>
> Thanks for bringing it back up, in any case.
>
> --
> Mike Rylander
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>  | Equinox Open Library Initiative
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>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 1:39 PM Bill Erickson <berickxx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > For a long time, Firefox didn't support date and time <inputs/> -- no
> calendar widget, no controls, etc.  Because of this, we have traditionally
> relied on the date / time pickers provided by the toolkit (ng-bootstrap in
> Angular).
> >
> > However, Firefox does now support date [1], time [2], and datetime-local
> [3] input types, as does Chrome.  Date selectors provide calendar widgets,
> all variations provide 'clear' actions, increment/decrement actions
> (buttons and arrow key), input validation, and manual entry w/ support for
> automatically jumping to the next field once a value part is entered (e.g.
> hours => minutes).
> >
> > It looks like they do everything we need, but I could be overlooking
> something...
> >
> > Is there any value in continuing to use the ng-bootstrap widgets for
> date and time selectors?  Thoughts on migrating to native browser widgets?
> >
> > -b
> >
> > [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date
> > [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/time
> > [3]
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/datetime-local
> >
>
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