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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The real calling is to expose the guts: make all the infra that browsers ship for themselves but not for developers available on equal footing. Open the damned thing up
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The benefit here, in case it isn't clear, is to undercut the usual arguments against customisation (which are real): that userspace components are bad at a11y, heavyweight, etc. They don't *have* to be, but we force that by keeping <input> a welded-shut disaster
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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.