[majora2007]

It's actually crazy that we don't have a basic typeahead component or tag selector in this day and age with HTML. Every web page I've ever built has needed these components and while there are libraries out there, they all have an annoying bug here or there.

But considering we are just now getting Select tags with styling, signals how long it might take for a typeahead which is vastly more complex.

[cosmic_cheese]

Why implement broadly useful HTML widgets when you can instead put those engineering resources to work on a new WebBeer API that fetches the number of beers in the user’s fridge or something else similarly niche?

[jhardy54]

> basic typeahead

It isn’t perfect, but have you tried <datalist>?

Totally agree about tag pickers, I was bummed to see that Bootstrap didn’t have a tag selector component either.

[mlhpdx]

I have, and failed.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40265782

[ricenews]

It may not be present in Apple’s official documentation but it has been supported since Safari 12.2.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da... compatibility. The demo on that page works for me in current Safari on both iOS and Mac.

[no_wizard]

Some examples seem to work better than others though. I’m on latest iOS and sometimes it will invoke the native date picker like you’d expect to see, sometimes it won’t, and the type ahead doesn’t seem to work consistently

[mlhpdx]

That demo shows the problems splendidly. It “only kinda” works on iOS.

[recursive]

Safari is the "new" IE. I put "new" in quotes because it's been this way for like a decade.

[troupo]

--- start quote ---

Back fifteen years ago IE held back the web because web developers had to cater to its outdated technology stack. “Best viewed with IE” and all that. But do you ever see a “Best viewed with Safari” notice? No, you don’t. Another browser takes that special place in web developers’ hearts and minds.

--- end quote ---

https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...

[recursive]

Yes, Safari is not exactly like IE because IE had a dominant user share once upon a time.

We don't see "best viewed in Safari", but we do see plenty of sites that can be viewed in Safari, despite the extra effort used to get them there. And I'm not even a regular chrome user.

[troupo]

The absolute vast majority of web sites require no effort to "get there".

The absolute vast majority of those which don't work in Safari use Chrome-only non-standards.

And there is a tiny minority of sites that run into some Safari-specific quirks

[facile3232]

If anything chrome is the engine with odd quirks you are forced to work around.

[recursive]

I haven't found this to be the case in my experience.

[facile3232]

Maybe it's just iframes that are the issue but they were a devil and a half to get working in chrome (or blink ig) without relying on third party cookies.

[immibis]

Chrome's quirks become the standard and other browsers have to implement them.

[asddubs]

also drag and drop rearrange