input type=date ignores locale

[treefrog00]

The date input shim always shows dates as mm/dd/yyyy regardless of the user's locale. Chrome uses the correct format based on locale.

Unfortunately the standard does not include an interface for manually overriding the format, though if there could be some way to do that via some sort of custom attribute that might be nice.

[aFarkas]

webshim automatically reads the html[lang] attribute. If this is not set the browser locale is used. You can simply override this, with webshims.activeLang('de');

Documentation: http://afarkas.github.io/webshim/demos/demos/forms.html#Locale-activeLang
Demo (scroll down the page): http://afarkas.github.io/webshim/demos/demos/cfgs/input-date.html

[aFarkas]

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[treefrog00]

yes thanks! I was confused because I assumed that browsers got the locale from the OS, but for some reason my copy of Firefox has a locale of en-US even though both the OS and Chrome are en-GB.