alt Hacker News> Use `<input type="file" id="avatar" name="avatar" accept="image/png, image/jpeg" />`. Opens the OS photo picker on mobile. You can style it however you like.
This just selects the image. 99 times out 100, you want to do the same things with the image data: adjust it in some way, and save it to object storage or something. The file input is too primitive for this. And this is the theme all over, HTML control remain too primitive to do any real world rih UI with, which leads to the proliferation of JS UI libraries.
> If you have autocomplete bugs to file, file them, and maybe convince the Interop group to focus on this issue. Their priorities for 2025 were just announced, but there's always next year. https://web.dev/blog/interop-2025
Autocomplete "bugs" abound aplenty, some of which will make your jaw drop. I've been testing with Chrome and Firefox. The length to which browsers will go in a misguided attempt to be clever with auto-complete is frankly absurd. So I'm not sure they are "bugs" so much as they are a wilful refusal by browser vendors to follow the spec.
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> 99 times out 100, you want to do the same things with the image data: adjust it in some way, and save it to object storage or something.
That's kind of a bonkers expectation for the browser to fill. It's like expecting that <input type="audio" /> should let me crop the audio and add reverb to it. That's two specific manipulations out of untold thousands, and squarely within the purview of a different app. https://editor.audio/ (never used this, just an example)
> This just selects the image. 99 times out 100, you want to do the same things with the image data: adjust it in some way, and save it to object storage or something. The file input is too primitive for this.
That's not true at all. Obviously there's no `adjustinsomeway` or `savetoobjectstorage` attribute on the <input> element, but you can trivially grab the selected files, read them, and act on them with JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_API/Us...
> This just selects the image. 99 times out 100, you want to do the same things with the image data: adjust it in some way, and save it to object storage or something.
This is probably the reason why someone invented the <canvas> element?
> Autocomplete "bugs" abound aplenty
No, there's just the one "bug": browsers ignore autocomplete=off.
And, as you say, the browsers regard that not to be a bug, because when they honor developers request to prevent autocomplete, users keep filing bugs on the browsers, saying "why won't you autocomplete this??"
Put something descriptive in the autocomplete, instead of "off", and you're usually fine.
Consider the "State of HTML" survey of form pain points. https://2024.stateofhtml.com/en-US/features/forms/#forms_pai...
See also the "missing elements" section. https://2024.stateofhtml.com/en-US/usage/#html_missing_eleme...
An image cropper didn't make the list. Data table did! But it's pretty complicated, and, as I said, progress is slow. Partly that's for backwards compatibility reasons, and partly it's because you have to get Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to all agree on anything, and that's really hard.
Autocomplete is on the list of pain points. But it's wayyy further down the list than having a customizable `<select>`. Styling & customization, validation, and `<input type=date>` are all bigger pain points than autocomplete.