Re: iphone & php

""Jim Giner"" <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com> wrote in message news:35.42.35539.06DF45F4@pb1.pair.com... > > "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@sigmaphinothing.org> wrote in message > news:4F54FAF8.4030202@sigmaphinothing.org... >> [snip]In the last few mins I re-booted my phone and it is now doing >> something even worse! [/snip] >> >> Have you also cleared the cache and the cookies? >> >> You can also add Firebug to your iPhone - >> http://www.iphone-my.com/ipad/geting-firebug-iphone-ipad/ > > No - I didn't go that far, but I can. More testing has revealed that > Safari running on my PC also doesn't like to accept the date I'm > inputting. As soon as I tab off the field, it changes itself to whatever > my first two digits were. > Okay - here's the scoop - although this is not the forum for it. Ipads and Iphones respect an html input tag's type="number" attribute in order to trigger the device's different keyboard configurations. This is a neat trick that I found on a couple of apple-related sites and has been working fine. I just now removed that from my code that generates the html and Voila - problem gone. Apparently Safari has been modified recently is my guess.