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Do you not have other browsers installed? You can open it up yourself by opening this URL

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

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Chrome for Android’s picker is worse in every way I can think of:

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.

Oh jeez, yeah that's bad. What Android version and browser are you on?

This is vanilla android 13 with chrome 108. (IE – the newest ones)

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

Wow good to know, thanks so much. What a sorry state date pickers are in on mobile :(

Also wild how this post is singling out Safari when Android seems to somehow be even worse

> 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.

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