[talkin]

You’re technically right but that doesn’t matter.

That you’re correctly using html forms won’t quickly lead to browser improvements.. so the result is that users will hate your forms. Users/your customer might possibly even think that you’re to blame, and not $browserVendor.

[BalinKing]

I’ll go one further and say that the customers are absolutely justified to blame the developer instead of the browser. If a developer knowingly chooses a built-in form control whose common implementations are bad for their users, how are they not at fault for the resulting experience?

“This site only uses functionality provided by the HTML spec” is not a useful goal in and of itself. Using the right tool for the job, which might be JavaScript, is always more important.