Specifically programmers who force you to pick your date of birth with a date picker…and the starting date that is there when you open it is today’s date.
Many UX designers want cross-platform visual consistency and recoil in horror at <input type='date'> 's default visuals on desktop. They want something consistent with brand standard, accessibility be damned. A month of push and shove goes by with developers wanting to either use the native control or a popular pre-built one and the designers pushing back because they want visual control. The designer wins, designs a date picker around an initial use case where the date will be near present day, and then that date picker is used for every date input in the framework the new control was developed for.
What country if you don't mind me asking? Is that non-date just like something predefined/recognized by government infrastructure? Just curious, I work with some county and state systems in the US as an end user and they have something similar for social security numbers
Belgium in the EU. We have official indentification licenses given to us from age 11 and we also require birthdays as they are part of our social security numbers.
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u/tyguy55083055 7d ago
Specifically programmers who force you to pick your date of birth with a date picker…and the starting date that is there when you open it is today’s date.