Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
Date widgets are almost universally bad.  Most I encounter are unintuitive or outright buggy.<p>However, OP complaining about usability and the providing three text fields with the MM and DD being placeholders is terrible.  Normally placeholder-only labels are a bad idea, but this is especially true when the month and day fields have different order depending on the region.  The moment you&#x27;ve got [1] [4] [1980], you no longer know which is month and which is day.<p>And do they swap these placeholders and entered values if you change the country from US to an EU country?<p>The lack of progress in the tech world in making consistent user interface standards is disappointing.  We should not be still struggling with these topics (and as users we should not be suffering).  Tax time, trying to fetch reports from banks&#x2F;exchanges is one of the worst recurring experiences...