> The Safari color picker, in particular, is so bad
What's bad about it? Can't test it on desktop right now, but on iOS it opens all the bells and whistles, including the "pick color from anywhere on the page".
What used to be horrible across all browsers is the date picker: tiny buttons, tiny numbers etc.
On desktop, the color picker in Safari has two stages: on first click it presents a 10x10 grid of colors with 10 extra basic colors on top, with a “Show Colors” button on the bottom that opens the macOS system color picker.
This is actually a bit better than the picker implementations in other browsers because it gives the user a chance to use any colors they’ve saved in the system picker, as well as any color picker plugins the user may have installed.
Yes, but tell that to my clients who keep telling me "Why can I choose any color in Chrome but in Safari I'm limited to a crayon box?" They either can't use color picker plugins or they can't figure out how to access them.
And there's no language in the declarative API to, for example, start the user on the Mac OS system color picker.
What's bad about it? Can't test it on desktop right now, but on iOS it opens all the bells and whistles, including the "pick color from anywhere on the page".
What used to be horrible across all browsers is the date picker: tiny buttons, tiny numbers etc.