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I think the web is culturally incapable of standardizing GUI elements. The nature of web development is to rebuild from scratch. Standard buttons and menus look

I think the web is culturally incapable of standardizing GUI elements. The nature of web development is to rebuild from scratch. Standard buttons and menus look so vanilla, let's instead style a div with an onClick handler, let's use a hover selector with a scroll animation. The set of UI interactions collapses to its ground state: click, tap, basic text entry. Has any new UI paradigm emerged on the web in the last 25 years? Maybe the hamburger button? Honest question, I struggle to think of any. The richest web apps are still aping desktop apps.

college_physics 4y ago
I wouldnt defend web culture in this respect. Some people also argue that html is really about documents and not a good basis for a gui anyways. But I think technically it is possible to overload whatever is available and have very decent, easy to build apps and have a productive, cross platform option. Its not going to make those pushing gui limits sweat, but that is not its point. In any case its not going to happen as the experience with standard development and adoption is quite painful
- tabtab 4y ago
  > I think technically it is possible to overload whatever is available [in existing web standards] and have very decent, easy to build [GUI] apps "Technically", perhaps. "Easy", no! It appears the DOM is inherently too flawed to serve GUI's well, and fixing it would likely break backward compatibility. Forcing DOM to do GUI's is possible, but turns even women bald.