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

4 points by steven_braham 8 years ago | 3 comments

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).

steanne 8 years ago |

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

limeblack 8 years ago |

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

Not sure why Firefox doesn't support it.

jfoster 8 years ago |

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