I just returned from a cruise to Alaska. We made a quick swing through Victoria in Canada, which required the cruise line to collect my passport information. Like many people who find themselves with rare travel to another country, I just recently renewed my passport. That ended up being a pain using the site’s calendar-based date selection.
Using their widget, I painfully scrolled through the months. I clicked on the year and scrolled forward, three years at a time, to 2019, when my new passport will expire. It’s a Tuesday, if you were wondering.
Providing a calendar to make a date selection is useful when it’s sometime in the near future. In that case, it’s easy to scroll to a few short months away. In this situation, it’s useless.
I’d rather see month, day and year dropdown boxes. Or, even a text box that looks for the formats used by most passports (I had it in front of me to type in its info, of course). Anything other than scrolling through ten years into the future.
The “April” and “2009” elements appear to have “drop-down” arrows. Is it possible that you overlooked what you wanted?
They are drop-downs, but not in HTML. They’re part of the widget, so they’re all JavaScripty. Thankfully I didn’t have to scroll through 120 months, but it was still not a very useful way to select a date that far in the future.