Adactio: Jeremy Keith

Those HTML web components I made for date inputs are very simple. All they do is slightly extend the behaviour of the existing input elements.
This would be the ideal use-case for the is attribute:
Alas, Apple have gone on record to say that they will never ship support for customized built-in elements....

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 had the opportunity to trim some code from The Session recently. That’s always a good feeling.
In this case, it was a progressive enhancement pattern that was no longer needed. Kind of like removing a polyfill.
There are a couple of places on the site where you can input a date. This is exactly what input type="date" is for. But when I was making the interface, the support for this type of input was patchy....

It’s been dispiriting but unsurprising to see American commentators weigh in on the EU’s Digital Markets Act. I really wish they’d read Baldur’s excellent explainer first.
John has been doing his predicatable “leave Britney alone!” schtick with regards to Apple (and in this case, Google and Facebook too). Ian Betteridge does an excellent job of setting him straight:...