Comment 17 for bug 1189989

Thanks Jason!

I have a couple of questions about the HTML5 date input to make sure I'm understanding the issue correctly.

My understanding that in the browsers that support this element, the date format that is entered matches the locale of the user's device. However, the actual date sent to the server is in a standard format, no matter what format is displayed/entered in the browser. Is that correct?

In the case of Firefox, then, where we don't have a date picker, in what format is the date sent to the server? Does it send the date in one standard format no matter how the date is entered in the form? Or does it send the date to the server in the format in which it was entered?

The answer to that question gives me a better idea of how I feel about using the HTML5 date input before full support is available in Firefox.