I came across this recently and greatly dislike - it needs fixing please. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lenny Primak To: Tapestry users Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [T5.4] Datepicker is mostly broken
Nice catch. Voted upon. On Sep 6, 2013, at 7:39 AM, Barry Books wrote: > As long as we are picking on DateField I created this issue: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-2173 > > The problem is the combination of DateField and the conversion of Strings > to SimpleDateFormat allow dates such as 2013-09-67 to be considered valid > and that input returns Wed Nov 06 00:00:00 CST 2013. If you read the > documentation this behavior is to be expected but I don't think it's the > correct default behavior and is at best a usability problem. Since I don't > think most people would enter 2013-09-67 and expect 2013-11-06 the worse > case is end up with unreliable data in your database with no errors and no > way to differentiate the good input from the bad. I was not able to > completely work around this problem without creating my own DateField > component. > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Lenny Primak <lpri...@hope.nyc.ny.us>wrote: > >> Now since my bootstrap issues are cleared up, the state of the datepicker >> is still leaves something to be desired. >> This is actually the same state it was since T5.3, with the following bugs >> still not fixed: >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-805 >> Take a look at my last comment. Basically, currently, a user types in >> gibberish in the date field, the date picker will not longer pop up, >> which is a usability issue. >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-1845 (obsolete colors, causing >> issues on some systems) >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-1408 >> This should be re-opened. Users are required to click on the little >> calendar button in order to cancel the datepicker. >> This isn't good usability-wise. They should be able to click anywhere on >> the page >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
