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Re: Datepicker questions - are they useful?

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From: _mallory
Date: Nov 5, 2015 7:07AM

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 10:01:17AM -0800, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> That would be helpful if possible in some cases, but usually date pickers are meant to go two ways, first opening the calendar from the web page which is probably doable in some cases like this, but also the other way where the date selected needs to be sent back to the web page in a way that can be processed. Also there may be disabled date ranges or additional info that needs to be conveyed within the calendar to the user at the same time that may not be possible to do on a software/app based calendar since it would only apply to the site where the date picker was originally located. Currently it's not possible for a standard web page to send and receive information like this by accessing apps on the device OS like this, because it also introduces security vulnerabilities. E.G If a malicious site were for example to access your calendar and read all of your events it could also save and record them, which would be a breach of your privacy.

Yeah, it would have to be one-way metadata from the site to the
calendar app to counter security problems, and the selection of
date(s) would need to be considered an input back to the page,
something I think the calendar would/should be able to control.

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> There has indeed been discussion for making native date pickers that work in browsers, but date pickers that actually display interactive calendars are still a ways off. First all of the browser implementers need to agree on how something should be displayed and what it should do, and how it should work, and how it should map, and how it should render, and how it should be configurable, and so on. To my knowledge nobody has tried to spec something like this out as yet. Perhaps some of the browser guys on this list may know of something in this regard.

fingers crossed.
_m