HTML5 date picker doesn't show on Safari

Question

Having previously used jQuery date picker, I have now converted some of the date fields in forms on my website to the HTML5 date picker.

On the documentation, it says Sa

Answer 1

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