I think the Kendo UI DatePicker is a great component however I am having issues with the Angular version. It seems you have decided to try to save the user typing a / in some circumstances. If my date format is UK (en-GB) dd/mm/yyyyy and I type 8 you auto skip to the month but if I type 1, 2 or 3 then you can't be sure if I intend to type another digit for the day so in this case for days 1, 2 or 3 I must manually type the / to progress to the month entry.
This drives me and other test users of our application crazy. It also seems far less accessible. If the user has multiple dates to enter it is far easier for them to apply the same pattern every time, always enter a slash between day, month and year. Your solution may save a key stroke or two in some circumstances but it also requires greater thought by the user to remember the rules and switch behaviour when the initial digit of the day/month cannot have a valid second digit.
If you do insist on supporting these please can you make it optional, add a setting so it can be disabled.
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Hi Robert,
Thank you for the provided feedback. Indeed that is a known issue on our side for quite some time now. Please see it at the following link:
https://github.com/telerik/kendo-angular/issues/1202
We acknowledge what you are saying and that providing an option to change the default behavior as required would be a valuable enhancement of the component. However, so far we haven't added the issue to our development plans as it hasn't been prioritized so far. I have added a comment referencing this feedback as well to the issue in an attempt to bring up its demand and respectively prioritize the development of the enhancement.
Please let me know in case I can provide any additional information on this case.
Regards,
Svet
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