One of the unremarked indignities of getting older is how long it takes to scroll back from today when using those odometer scrolly things in supposedly well-designed apps that need to know your date of birth.
@robpike Any type of control but a textbox for numeric input is inexcusably bad UX.
Any good browser or UI toolkit should disallow them and silently replace them with textboxes.
@TimWardCam @robpike If so that's just sad and stupid. I always assumed they were something mindless UI devs believed they were supposed to use anywhere there was a "finite set of choices" and they didn't want to validate input..
@TimWardCam @robpike You need server side validation regardless. Client side is just a convenience for the user.