rob pikeDec 8, 2024
One of the unremarked indignities of getting older is how long it takes to scroll back from today when using those odometer scrolly things in supposedly well-designed apps that need to know your date of birth.
Show threadCassandrichDec 8, 2024

@robpike Any type of control but a textbox for numeric input is inexcusably bad UX.

Any good browser or UI toolkit should disallow them and silently replace them with textboxes.

Show threadkolya
@dalias @robpike
all modern browsers support a standard date picker with fine UX: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date
the problem are webdevs who only know their Javascript framework and have little idea about HTML/CSS and therefore needlessly build their own pretty but shitty datepickers
<input type="date"> - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN

<input> elements of type="date" create input fields that let the user enter a date. The appearance of the date picker input UI varies based on the browser and operating system. The value is normalized to the format yyyy-mm-dd.

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Dec 8, 2024 at 12:15pmWeb
Show threadCassandrichDec 8, 2024
@kolya @robpike That is NOT fine UX. Fine UX would be interpreting that as a text field that validates YYYY-MM-DD.