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Use date HTML5 input type for DateAttribute

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Use date HTML5 input type for DateAttribute

From #5910 (closed)

The hard decision is whether to replace our date input by the type=date HTML5 input. Here is the support matrix: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date#Browser_compatibility

All major browsers seem to support it, and I expect most of them will have a better interface than our old fashion datepicker. It would mean switching from d.m.Y to YYYY-MM-DD format for POST value. We may keep d.m.Y as internal value to avoid confusing webservice and internal code (but I do think YYYY-MM-DD is a better and more widely used format).

For outdated browser, they would in this case show a text input field and users would have to "guess" they need to enter YYYY-MM-DD format. We can detect this case in javascript and maybe add a text to explain this, or even try to add the old datepicker (but that means adapt its code to support YYYY-MM-DD format). We can use pattern attribute to force NNNN-NN-NN format (with N an integer), which is more widely supported (IE>=10).

I think we should migrate DateAttribute to HTML5 and to YYYY-MM-DD internal format. It may break external tools relying on the webservice. It could break some internal features but this seems unlikely. I think we should drop the JS datepicker entirely.

This should be done in a major release, so either %FusionDirectory 1.4 or 1.5.

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