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Comment by claudius | Hacker News Reader

Hopefully it will stop people implementing their own date/time pickers which only allow changing that date/time by clicking up/down arrows. In particular the Munich transport website (mvg.de) is guilty of this and I absolutely hate it with a passion.

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Of course it won't. Public service providers in particular need to provide compatibility down to the likes of IE 7.

To be fair, there would be a relatively easy way to test for support to implement a fallback.

  var el = document.createElement("input");
  el.type = "time";
  var supported = (el.type == "time");

If only there wasn't a bug on firefox mobile that would return "text" even if the input field type is supported.

... mhmmm webdevelopment...

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