Imagine a world in which the default form controls on the web did not suck. Picture it in your mind... In this world, the controls' styling:
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Hard to navigate, requires lots of high-precision movement to use well, scales to other form factors terribly. OS consistency, at the limit, is only as good as the OS paradigms, and they are often cast in amber while software marches forward.
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So the web should both reject slavish OS consistency (how much pain have we caused for <button> styling to defend this turf?) as well as the notion that browser provided impls are hallowed. They're just (badly layered) code that happens to be cheap.
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with matching OS styles because the web has the power to look and be consistent on all OSs. Agree
on the need for better controls. I have been making websites for long time and now work on a browser and still need to check CSS tricks on how to style checkboxes.