In practice, I’m pretty happy with how dialog turned out. I certainly do not find it needing a “large amount of styling and code” to obtain immediate utility.

In practice, I’m pretty happy with how dialog turned out. I certainly do not find it needing a “large amount of styling and code” to obtain immediate utility. I’ll readily agree, however, that the meter element is trash, and date input an underspecified UX crapshoot. My biggest beef with Apple’s standards engagement, however, is their intransigent and ill-considered refusal to implement customised built-in elements.