[Pikamander2]

> half-baked making its usage almost useless.

It's sad how many elements this is still the case for in 2025. A good chunk of them can be blamed on Safari.

Probably the most extreme example of this is <input type="date"> which is supposedly production-ready but still has so many browser quirks that it's almost always better to use a JS date picker, which feels icky.

[abustamam]

Omg yes, I thought I was crazy when I was pushing for native input type=date instead of JS date picker, it worked perfectly with minimal configuration on my phone and on my Mac, but then my coworkers said it didn't work for them on their browsers, turns out, yeah, it's not consistent.

I then proceeded to spend the next week crying trying to get JS date picker to work as well as native did on my browsers.

[Muromec]

On all the projects I worked that involved ui elements library, datepicker consistently was the biggest pain in the ass, rivaled only by modals.

[dawnerd]

Modals at least are a solved problem these days.

[speleding]

It's the one place we still use user-agent sniffing: if the built in date picker works we show that (iPhone / iPad), otherwise we do a JS picker.

[VladVladikoff]

Wait which browsers can’t support html5 date field?

[abustamam]

It's not a question of support, it's a question of consistency. I don't remember the details, I just remember it was barely usable on one of my coworkers device/browsers. It worked, for some definition of the word, but it was not intuitive.

https://caniuse.com/input-datetime

[jkrejcha]

The one that gets me is the fact that there's no user-editable combobox. There's a select drop down, and "input + datalist" (and that doesn't help when there's effectively 0 hint about what the things you can use actually are), but no way to have the two combined.

It's actually a little surprising to me since these are somewhat basic controls that have been around in UI toolkits for decades. It's in that weird sweet spot where the building blocks are almost usable enough to build rich applications, but it's just out of reach.

[paradox460]

Safari and Firefox together seem to always be dragging their feet on things. Sure, sometimes it's "standards" chrome is ramming through, but many times it's things like this, that have been around since before chrome