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Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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Re: Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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They are wrong. Most OS native date pickers are very bad from a usability perspective. A javascript date picker fixes these issues, and allows more functions.

And why are they arguing against their own product? Even making up bogus claims that using js date pickers would be illegal in Europe?

Re: Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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> Travel booking often has a fixed schedule with limited time options, such as every 15 minutes. Relative dates like “Today” and “Tomorrow” can be easier to understand.

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.)

Re: Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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The context of the date being chosen should guide you to the appropriate picker.

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.

Re: Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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They are wrong. Most OS native date pickers are very bad from a usability perspective. A javascript date picker fixes these issues, and allows more functions. And why are they arguing against their own product? Even making up bogus claims that using js date pickers would be illegal in Europe?

https://github.com/Pikaday/Pikaday

> We’ve decided to archive the Pikaday repository on GitHub. The project has not been actively maintained for years.

> Pikaday was started before was supported in browsers and before custom elements and component frameworks. Pikaday is probably not the right choice today.

Re: Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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They are wrong. Most OS native date pickers are very bad from a usability perspective. A javascript date picker fixes these issues, and allows more functions. And why are they arguing against their own product? Even making up bogus claims that using js date pickers would be illegal in Europe?

From the GitHub project:

> Pikaday was started before 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

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