Ask HN: Why has Firefox still no support for the html 5 date element?

Posted by steven_braham on Friday August 11, 2017 @06:19PM
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Just curious, because Chrome has it since 2012 and even Microsoft Edge supports the new date input.

Firefox however is the only major browser that does not support the date input type. The only reason that I load a date picker plugin nowadays is for Firefox compatibility (in my country, nearly nobody uses Opera or Safari).

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Re:Ask HN: Why has Firefox still no support for the html 5 d... by steanne on Friday August 11, 2017 @06:22PM (#14994844)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...

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Re:Ask HN: Why has Firefox still no support for the html 5 d... by limeblack on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:02PM (#14995719)

There are potyfills for this for example here https://www.npmjs.com/package/date-input-polyfill

Not sure why Firefox doesn't support it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why has Firefox still no support for the html 5 d... by jfoster on Saturday August 12, 2017 @09:41PM (#15001050)

Interesting question. It's something that is extremely common, and doesn't seem too difficult to implement.

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