Pickin��� dates on iOS

This is a little follow-up to my post about web components for date inputs.

If you try the demo on iOS it doesn���t work. There���s nothing stopping you selecting any date.

That���s nothing to do with the web components. It turns out that Safari on iOS doesn���t support min and max on date inputs. This is also true of any other browser on iOS because they���re all just Safari in a trenchcoat ���for now.

I was surprised ��� input type="date" has been around for a long time now. I mean, it���s not the end of the world. You���d have to do validation on inputted dates on the server anyway, but it sure would be nice for the user experience of filling in forms.

Alas, it doesn���t look like this is something on the interop radar.

What really surprised me was looking at Can I Use. That shows Safari on iOS as fully supporting date inputs.

Maybe it���s just semantic nitpickery on my part but I would consider that the lack of support for the min and max attributes means that date inputs are partially supported.

Can I Use gets its data from here. I guess I need to study the governance rules and try to figure out how to submit a pull request to update the currently incorrect information.