Except when you're booking a flight and you're not sure whether "today" is based on your local time, the server's local time, or GMT. (I often book flights right about midnight and find words like "today" and "tomorrow" to be completely confusing.)
For example, for a dinner reservation, a calendar can be useful to explore availability on weekends. But if I have to enter my birthdate, then it’s quicker to enter it numerically. I don’t need to consider other dates and the day of the week is irrelevant.
We had to change our date of birth field in the user sign-up to three separate "Month Name","Day" and "Year" drop downs, since so many people made mistakes (fat finger/ swap month and day) from the "MM/DD/YYYY" field, and would then send support ticket to update it.
carlosjobim•5h ago
And why are they arguing against their own product? Even making up bogus claims that using js date pickers would be illegal in Europe?
AugurCognito•1h ago
> We’ve decided to archive the Pikaday repository on GitHub. The project has not been actively maintained for years.
> Pikaday was started before <input type="date"> was supported in browsers and before custom elements and component frameworks. Pikaday is probably not the right choice today.
nhumrich•1h ago
> Pikaday was started before <input type="date"> was supported in browsers and before custom elements and component frameworks. Pikaday is probably not the right choice today
The project itself has been deprecated
thoughtpalette•54m ago