• bjorney
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    1010 months ago

    Chrome implements features that aren’t standards track into their browser, and lazy/oblivious devs use these features to build their products - only to realize wayyy too late it won’t work in Safari/Firefox because it uses APIs that are chrome only

    • @[email protected]
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      010 months ago

      Firefox still has no month or week inputs. These things have been standardized 10 years ago and implemented in Chrome as of version 20.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          Use case: You want a weekly/monthly report for some particular week/month in business software.

      • Eager Eagle
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        510 months ago

        Probably the reason it was never implemented is that it’s barely an inconvenience. The input just fallback into a text field.

        • bjorney
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          110 months ago

          Probably because the week input is just a date picker that applies Math.floor() on the result, and month inputs are better suited for a ``

      • @squid_slime
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        210 months ago

        That input sucks, ui design and its not intuitive at all. Its more frustrating that I can’t just type dates in