> And we are back at implementing our custom controls again. Are we? Why wouldn't we just push OS vendors to add "input box with pill-style auto-completion" as

> And we are back at implementing our custom controls again. Are we? Why wouldn't we just push OS vendors to add "input box with pill-style auto-completion" as a native toolkit widget, and then have browsers expose it? The OS vendors have proven willing to add stuff like native OS date/time/number-picker widgets, so why not this one?