jQuery date picker problem in Safari

• Safari does not include a native datepicker for its desktop version (although it does for iOS). Incidentally, neither does IE. It's very frustrating as it could save developers a lot of time if they did.
• This is a useful link for tracking support for it: http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime

• Although there is no native datepicker for Safari (or IE) a pretty good workaround is to add a placeholder attribute to the date input. This informs Safari and IE users which format the fallback text input should be (which is yyyy-mm-dd). The placeholder doesn't display on browsers that support type=date so this workaround won't affect other browsers.

  e.g. <input type="date" placeholder="yyyy-mm-dd" />