On 5 Mar 2012, at 18:12, Jim Giner wrote:
>>> Okay - here's the scoop - although this is not the forum for it.
>>> 
>>> Ipads and Iphones respect an html input tag's type="number" attribute
>>> in
>>> order to trigger the device's different keyboard configurations.  This
>>> is a
>>> neat trick that I found on a couple of apple-related sites and has been
>>> 
>>> working fine.  I just now removed that from my code that generates the
>>> html
>>> and Voila - problem gone.  Apparently Safari has been modified recently
>>> is
>>> my guess.
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> What format was your date in? It was my understanding that only numerical 
>> characters with a preceeeding sign and decimal point was allowed? I would 
>> expect a date to be in the form dd/mm/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy (allowing for 
>> swapping months and days of course) but neither is a valid number.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ash
>> http://ashleysheridan.co.uk
> 
> My entry is valid - mm/dd/yyyy.  Works great on teh ipad, not the iphone 


I might be wrong, but I think Ash was actually asking why the hell a date field 
had that type attribute set to number. That's just messed up!!

-Stuart

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