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> Note: also applies to telephone numbers (type=tel), URLs (type=url), and numbers (type=num) in your signup flow While this sounds great advice for telephone

> Note: also applies to telephone numbers (type=tel), URLs (type=url), and numbers (type=num) in your signup flow While this sounds great advice for telephone numbers in theory, but in practice browsers on Android replace the normal keyboard with a big number keyboard without any "autocomplete". So the end result is when a designer makes input(type=num) I actually have to fill in my whole phone number by hand as opposed to using the autocomplete which shows my phone number as soon as I enter the first 2 digits. I guess it's partly android's keyboard fault for hiding autocomplete suggestions on whim.

ThalesX 5y ago
I've had terrible results with using an <input type='date' ... /> for choosing the birth date of users on a registration form. iOS would make this awesome control where I could scroll and choose the date in a nice way, but on Android, the control was just horrible and we kept getting complaints. In the end, we choose the [day][month][year] dropdown set because it was the only one that didn't drive our users crazy. I really loved the iOS control though.
- bussierem 5y ago
  What's so weird about that is that Android HAS that control. I was making an app for myself recently, and I needed a datepicker too, and I found a widget that is an exact replica of the iOS "spinners".
- unknown_error 5y ago
  You mean the horribly imprecise date wheel of doom thing? https://i.stack.imgur.com/ms5tX.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/ms5tX.png That's the one UI control I hate the most. Please don't do that. It replaces 3 seconds of typing 1 (tap) 15 (tap) 1969 into a tedious thumb game, especially if you have to scroll through three decades of years. Even Apple recently replaced it (https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/08/12/redesigned-date-time-picker-iphone-ipad/ https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/08/12/redesigned-date-tim...), thank god. Pleeeeeeeeease don't do that. The dropdowns are fine, and much superior. I realize this isn't data. What you call "awesome" I call "nightmarish". I would love to see actual research on the usability of that particular date picker scroll widget... maybe most users prefer it? I dunno.
  - ThalesX 5y ago
    No idea to be honest. I rather like it as an iOS user and our iOS users never - and I do mean 0 times - complained, while our ticketing system was full of Android users complaining about picking their birthday. With our [day][month][year] dropdowns we have no more complaints on picking date times. But I have a feeling the iOS experience took a hit. Again, this is personal and not backed by data (because we simply have no more birthday picking complaints).

ThalesX 5y ago

I've had terrible results with using an <input type='date' ... /> for choosing the birth date of users on a registration form. iOS would make this awesome control where I could scroll and choose the date in a nice way, but on Android, the control was just horrible and we kept getting complaints. In the end, we choose the [day][month][year] dropdown set because it was the only one that didn't drive our users crazy. I really loved the iOS control though.

bussierem 5y ago
What's so weird about that is that Android HAS that control. I was making an app for myself recently, and I needed a datepicker too, and I found a widget that is an exact replica of the iOS "spinners".
unknown_error 5y ago
You mean the horribly imprecise date wheel of doom thing? https://i.stack.imgur.com/ms5tX.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/ms5tX.png That's the one UI control I hate the most. Please don't do that. It replaces 3 seconds of typing 1 (tap) 15 (tap) 1969 into a tedious thumb game, especially if you have to scroll through three decades of years. Even Apple recently replaced it (https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/08/12/redesigned-date-time-picker-iphone-ipad/ https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/08/12/redesigned-date-tim...), thank god. Pleeeeeeeeease don't do that. The dropdowns are fine, and much superior. I realize this isn't data. What you call "awesome" I call "nightmarish". I would love to see actual research on the usability of that particular date picker scroll widget... maybe most users prefer it? I dunno.
- ThalesX 5y ago
  No idea to be honest. I rather like it as an iOS user and our iOS users never - and I do mean 0 times - complained, while our ticketing system was full of Android users complaining about picking their birthday. With our [day][month][year] dropdowns we have no more complaints on picking date times. But I have a feeling the iOS experience took a hit. Again, this is personal and not backed by data (because we simply have no more birthday picking complaints).