iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.1 refuses validation when a date field is used

[danmiser]

I have a small, straight HTML sample available here:
http://www.routexcel.com/jqm

Run this on an iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.1 and press the submit button.
//expected: Continues on to page 2
//actual: Pops up the native datepicker again

I boiled it down to this: This works fine when I leave everything else the same and use jquery.validate 1.8, but it fails starting in 1.9 (and 1.10.0). So the breaking change occurred between 1.8 and 1.9.

If you need something else, please let me know. Thanks!

[danmiser]

It looks like this is related to this issue:
#549

I used the work-around in that thread (updated to deal with ISO 8601 date format of yyyy-MM-dd) and things work better. Would be nice to have a bit more control over incoming date formats in the jquery.validation library.

[jzaefferer]

I agree that the built-in date method is terrible, since it relies on the inconsistent Date constructor. I've created a ticket to use Globalize for localized validation, #581. That should fix or avoid this problem.

[jzaefferer]

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