>The browser is the best at doing the things it does, and any control that you implement yourself is going to be worse.
There are plenty of counterexamples.
For example, the date input control does not allow to enforce date format by design, and the auto-detection of user facing format is buggy and inconsistent across browsers on the same system (e.g. Edge legacy ignored Windows' region preference and used the keyboard locale). It tends to show the American-style dates even on non-American locales, making the control not just useless but sometimes actively misleading.
Even apart from that it's pretty basic. Keyboard navigation is bad everywhere bad but in Chrome where it's just mediocre - there's no inline/auto-popup mode like other js pickers, and it requires nonintuitively pressing ENTER to pop-up.
Some browsers like Firefox don't have a 'Today' button, and even in Chrome you can't hide it when it doesn't make sense. No browser has a 'Clear' button which makes sense in some scenarios.
I can go on and on about how flawed that control is, but this is long enough.
There are plenty of counterexamples.
For example, the date input control does not allow to enforce date format by design, and the auto-detection of user facing format is buggy and inconsistent across browsers on the same system (e.g. Edge legacy ignored Windows' region preference and used the keyboard locale). It tends to show the American-style dates even on non-American locales, making the control not just useless but sometimes actively misleading.
Even apart from that it's pretty basic. Keyboard navigation is bad everywhere bad but in Chrome where it's just mediocre - there's no inline/auto-popup mode like other js pickers, and it requires nonintuitively pressing ENTER to pop-up.
Some browsers like Firefox don't have a 'Today' button, and even in Chrome you can't hide it when it doesn't make sense. No browser has a 'Clear' button which makes sense in some scenarios.
I can go on and on about how flawed that control is, but this is long enough.