DateWidget Year Selector

[arky]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The volto date widget (singledatepicker) has usability issues. It is not possible to quickly switch years without resorting to swiping multiple times. AFAIK there isn't a shortcut for switching years with keyboard.

Describe the solution you'd like
In Plone Classic interface, you have separate year selector to select a target year.

Describe alternatives you've considered
react-dates has introduced 'renderMonthElement' that allows you to create month and year dropdown selectors similar to plone classic interface.

[yashnerkar]

can I work on it?

[tiberiuichim]

I wonder why we don't use the simple <input type='date'>. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date

[stevepiercy]

<input type='date'> and all of its attributes, including pattern for graceful degradation, min, and max, would be my preference as a default date widget. If someone needs a more robust date widget, there are plenty of them out there. I usually regret adopting JavaScript date and time pickers in my projects, and recently have taken great pleasure in ripping them out to use the HTML version.

[arky]

+1 for @tiberiuichim suggestion on using input HTML element.

[davisagli]

Closing as a duplicate of #5662 which has a more recent plan for how we'd like this to be implemented.