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It's kind of sad that modern browsers have 3d rendering and sound synthesis capabilities, but don't have a working built-in date picker, a tree control or a bui
by gambler 14y ago
It's kind of sad that modern browsers have 3d rendering and sound synthesis capabilities, but don't have a working built-in date picker, a tree control or a built-in download widget that doesn't suck. The number of real-life, useful projects that could utilize those things are in hundreds of thousands. Thus, we end up with hundreds of badly designed and non-semantic widgets developed from scratch, plus a new wave of websites that look annoyingly like Flash and behave not much different.
- lusr 14y agoApparently there is at least <input type="date" /> (http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/inputs.html http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/inputs.html) but support is indeed pathetic (http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/inputs.html http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/inputs.html). It's fascinating these other APIs receive higher priority than something immediately useful to the user experience.
- slurgfest 14y agoThese things aren't zero-sum, there is no Central Soviet dictating that time be spent on WebGL rather than a date picker standard.