Date formatting of input type=date value attribute should always be rfc3339 about django-floppyforms

[poswald]

I can hack around the poor browser controls by creating a template that says:

type="{% if type == 'date' or type == 'datetime' or type == 'time' %}text{% else %}{{ type }}{% endif %}"

The value being localized is more of an issue. I created a small patch where input type=date is always output as 'YYYY-MM-DD'. Would you accept it? I don't like that we loose localization but I don't see any way around it while remaining compatible with the html5 spec (and hence native browser widgets).

[brutasse]

Thanks for the report.

Django 1.4 is definitely not getting floppyforms-like functionality, the merge hasn't happened for performance reasons. I'm still willing to maintain this project.

I'm not sure what should be done about this. Changing input types on a per-request basis is not trivial but doable by altering the form's fields['field_name'].widget.input_type attribute. Not what I'd qualify as pretty though.

Localization is quite broken in Django since it's done globally, not depending on the user's language like i18n. I'm not sure floppyforms would be the best place to fix this.

I'm happy to document ways to dynamically disable HTML5 input types if you think it's the best option.

[Not-Qualified]

dob = forms.DateField(widget=forms.widgets.DateTimeInput(attrs={"type": "date"}))

This will create