What do date pickers in other browsers look like?
I have gripes with Safari, but date pickers isn't one of the things only Safari struggles with.
An image search for 'android date picker' brings up at least three different designs: https://i.stack.imgur.com/3DW4n.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/LLRmB.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/kJqln.png
It seems like the first screenshot is `type="time"` and the second and third are `type="date"`. But I don't know if those are native components or the browsers defaults. Would be useful information
https://snipboard.io/8fL9Kl.jpg
That 2018 and the top left gives you a selection for all of the different years
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
But yeah that's a good point. I'm on Firefox on Mac and it looks pretty much exactly the same. I don't really get why other browsers wouldn't be causing the same issues
From the screenshots it seems like they're talking about users on a mobile device. iPhones only allow you to use WebKit, but I'd be curious to see what Android's date picker looks like
I feel like they could've just saved themselves the headache by setting the default value to 1950 or something
Video: https://imgur.com/a/W196T5f
iOS keeps the input on screen, so you can see the value in context. Android covers it up, and shows the value in a different format in the header.
iOS shows the Month+Year inside the calendar, with a blue arrow beside it to indicate interactivity. It’s not a strong affordance, but it’s something.
On Android, nothing gives any such affordance.
Blindly tapping the month+year in the calendar does nothing.
Blindly tapping the day or month on the header does nothing.
The year looks similar to the day and month, only smaller, and slightly darker grey. But if you tap it, you can scroll through the years.
There’s no way to scroll through months – the only option is to tap through them one at a time.
Firefox and Samsung Browser are basically the same thing with different colour schemes.
Samsung managed to make the year seem even less tappable: https://imgur.com/a/2q4CiXk
Also wild how this post is singling out Safari when Android seems to somehow be even worse
My guess is that it is selection bias. Older people are probably more like to use iOS devices, since they are marketed as being simple to use and maintain. So, they don't hear too many complaints about Chrome on Android, even though it's worse.