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The never ending battle between customizability and uniqueness. If there were a standard library (adopted by all browsers) similar to the default look of iOS a
by endisneigh 5y ago
The never ending battle between customizability and uniqueness.
If there were a standard library (adopted by all browsers) similar to the default look of iOS and Android apps, but in return you couldn't customize the look, would y'all go with that?
- gherkinnn 5y agoJust that it won't look the same across different browsers and platforms. They will also work differently, have slightly different options, and not every element will be available everywhere anyway. Give me the primitives any day.
- endisneigh 5y agoThe hypothetical is explicitly that if it did look and behave the same as well as having the same elements.
- gherkinnn 5y agoIf browser vendors today can't even decide on uniform search boxes, that's a hypothetical too far away to entertain.
- aitchnyu 5y agoI hope its appreciated. My mum used a Windows laptop and the apps were like a toystore. I got her a Macbook and the same apps looked uniform and they obeyed the accessibility settings perfectly.
- tshaddox 5y agoI suspect many people would use that for the functionality that it provided, but web standards are always going to move slower than individual developers and UI trends, and that’s good! Imagine if we had to wait for web standards to develop a road map element.