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Regarding input type="date"

> Recommendation

> While convenient where it works, the failure mode of type="date" and its associated date and time types is very poor. This makes it a risky choice that could leave users struggling to meet validation criteria.

[0]: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/01/html5-input-types/#...

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I remember desktop Chrome ‘implementing’ date input a few years ago by using the number input’s spinner. If you press up the date goes to 0000-01-01. It was worse than useless because you can’t even polyfill in a JS datepicker since the usual feature detection would detect Chrome as having support for date input.

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