456026 - Add day/month order indications to the birthday field on address book contacts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

At the moment it isn't particularly clear which field (day/month) is for which, and different locales vary, we should improve the situation there.

Comment 1

[Josh Geenen (:pi)]

I have been able to put empty text into the widget I am working on for Bug 456024 if that works.  I could also put some sort of notification in the label based on what the script detects for the system settings:
Birthday (MM/DD): 
Birthday (DD/MM): 

I did find one problem with the empty text - I can only display one letter (M or D).  MM and DD don't fit well.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Very much a wanted bug just not quite enough to block, as I think user's will soon get used to which way round the date is.

Comment 3

[Josh Geenen (:pi)]

Does the patch for Bug 456024 clear this up or should we use labels in the contact view pane (ex MM/DD)?

Comment 4

[Felix Möller]

I think this is fixed see bug #458591 for a screenshot.

Comment 5

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

I'm using TB 24 but the month and day fields are still empty.  This bug doesn't seem fixed.  Could someone confirm?

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yes, we have the fields, but no indications of which is which.

Comment 7

[:aceman]

Today, it worked for me if I put placeholder attributes on the <input> elements internal to the <datepicker>. It even took MM and DD. Should then toolkit datepicker implementation set this up? It probably knows which position is day and which is month.

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This is not an issue anymore in Thunderbird 78.