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Your extreme stance is not helping the cause. I recognize, for instance, that the HTML select element, with its current limitations, is unsuitable for some real
by mwcampbell 6y ago
Your extreme stance is not helping the cause. I recognize, for instance, that the HTML select element, with its current limitations, is unsuitable for some real-world use cases. We shouldn't tell application developers that they're wrong to need something more complex than what the NCSA Mosaic team (edit: or maybe Netscape) defined in the 90s. We need to meet developers where they are and make it as easy as possible for them to do the right thing.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoYeah, I do html/css whenever I can: part of the issue is just that html has been neglected compared to css/js over the last ten years or so: the form controls are mostly just what we had in the 90s and they haven’t really developed into a comprehensive set of the controls we need to make applications. It’d be amazing to have something like react-select or a datagrid/Google Sheets-style table as an element but, instead, we mostly are getting CSS and JS improvements, which means that people are going to tend to use divs with CSS/JS for behavior.