Standard DateFormat/Localization Support

[AlexandreArpin]

Currently, the DateFormat is pretty much baked inside the plugin, with no standard compliance with Localisation and JQuery UI Datepicker.

The way I see it, this plugin should be compatible with JQuery UI Datepicker options and Localisation support (through the i18n plugins)

Which would mean:

• Short Month Names and Long Month names inside the plugin.
• Standard DateFormat support (which would mean the day could be included)
• Year Suffix

(And probably some other things, I am not an expert with Localisation...)

I do not think MonthPicker should depends on the JQuery UI Datepicker plugin, but it'd be nice if their options would be compatible.

Ideally, I would be able to do something like this:

 var options = {
       pattern: $(".datepicker").datepicker("option", "dateFormat");,
       monthNames: $(".datepicker").datepicker("option", "monthNames");
       monthNamesShort: $(".datepicker").datepicker("option", "monthNamesShort");
 };

I realize this might be outside the scope of this plugin, I would appreciate if you could share your vision of this plugin, and if this is the sort of things you'd like to see integrated to it.

[lucianocosta]

Yeap! For now, you could do it this way, in initialization:

$('#your_widget').monthpicker({monthNames: $.datepicker._defaults.monthNamesShort});

About pattern, some regex over $.datepicker._defaults.dateFormat would do the trick too.

At a first look, I can't see any constraint in adding this behaviour if $.datepicker is defined.