HTML5 video and audio tags are under the spotlights right now.
They are supposed to be THE solution to display medias on all devices without relying on third party plug-ins like Flash.
In this article, we will not discuss about the many issues to deal with video and audio containers and codecs. We just want to know if it is possible to use the video and audio tags out in the real world on mobile devices.
On most services (applications or web sites), there is a strong need regarding input dates.
The best way of achieving this is by displaying a calendar to the user. There are many ways of doing this using JavaScript but since the HTML5 team has created a specific tag to deal with that, we could use it, at least on devices that support it.
« The input element with a type attribute whose value is « date » represents a control for setting the element’s value to a string representing a date. »
A valid full-date as defined in RFC 3339, with the additional qualification that the year component is four or more digits representing a number greater than 0.
Example: 1996-12-19
In the HTML source, it looks like this : <input type=”date” name=”mydate”>
This tag is designed to input a date. We are expecting that a compliant browser would display a calendar without any use of JavaScript or at least it would display an optimized keyboard on touch screen devices.
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