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0 pointspishpash3y ago0 comments

What would a default birthdate be? That would span 80+ years. That's not going to work. Any time an input spans ~29k values, you better provide some logarithmic-time searching mechanism. So yes, Safari's date picker is f'ing dumb.

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culi3y ago· 1 in thread

Which of these do you think did it better?

https://wd.imgix.net/image/vvhSqZboQoZZN9wBvoXq72wzGAf1/uh0U...

From left to right, that's Chrome desktop, Chrome mobile, Safari desktop, Safari mobile, and Firefox desktop

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The post specified that the users are mostly senior. Regardless of what they go with clearly 0% of their users benefit from leaving it to default today unless they somehow figured out how to sell smartphones to fetuses

phillipseamore3y ago

Also depending on the product and legal requirements the latest possible DOB might be 13, 18 or more years ago.

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