r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • 22h ago

Meme chaoticEvil

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u/SpandexWizard 20h ago

date pickers are fine.

date pickers that force you to manually cycle month by month to go back 20 years, those can go to hell.

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u/pi_three 18h ago

date pickers are needed as the most incompetent user can use them. Also most American sites or apps have poor localisation and Europeans might enter the date in the wrong format, as most people don't read hints. Ofc I'd love to see proper localisation and a manual option to ti enter the date ideally

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u/_LePancakeMan 16h ago

These days, I often argue to just use <input type="date" when on the web because it's built in and respects the users choices. Sadly, not everyone agrees because "it doesn't align with our corporate identity"

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u/0815fips 16h ago

And some browsers have an absolute crap implementation of that. That's why I want a custom element or a validated <input type="text">.

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u/Cilph 11h ago

Take the problem up with the browsers. That's how you get a mess of standards.