The Future
Right now, if you add a JavaScript-based date picker to your site, your users have to learn how it works. If you’ve ever shopped online for plane tickets and made hotel reservations, you’re already familiar with the different ways people implement custom form controls on sites. It’s akin to using an ATM—the interface is often different enough to slow you down.
Imagine, though, if each website used the HTML5 date field, and the browser had to create the interface. Each site a user visited would display the exact same date picker. Screen-reading software could even implement a standard mechanism to allow the blind to enter dates easily. We covered quite a few new form fields in this chapter, but we didn’t cover all of them. We can use ...
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