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Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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287 points mnemonet | 2 comments | 11 Nov 25 14:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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carlosjobim ◴[11 Nov 25 15:01 UTC] No.45887999[source]▶
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?

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nhumrich ◴[11 Nov 25 18:53 UTC] No.45891256[source]▶
From the GitHub project:

> Pikaday was started before <input type="date"> 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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thoughtpalette ◴[11 Nov 25 19:35 UTC] No.45891759[source]▶
This should be higher up. Posting a deprecated library with this title is an interesting choice.
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1. phil-pickering ◴[11 Nov 25 20:49 UTC] No.45892637[source]▶
You're all getting a little confused!

This is an up-to-date guide demonstrating why the old deprecated Pikaday JavaScript Datepicker is no longer needed.

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2. dbushell ◴[12 Nov 25 06:51 UTC] No.45897090[source]▶
yep! I decided to repurpose the pikaday.com domain because it was still seeing a lot of traffic despite the project being unmaintained for years.