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:
My colleague Hwi started looking into improved form controls last year after I banged on this gong for a little bit. The "easy" win is to improve the UX of the widgets we have; that's going to require a ton of research. More involved is better layering of existing stuff.
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I was thinking about something similar like how every single page has tooltips which is a massive pain with tons of edge cases an perf implications for something so easy to implement wrong and at the same time are just fancy title attributes. Should I write a proposal WDYT?
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@domenic this would be an interesting addition to html.@sebmarkbage,@acdlite, and@brian_d_vaughn were also telling us they had to do tons of extra layouts etc to position tooltips. Probably a missing API there. - 16 more replies
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Wouldn't hurt to try something different this time around.
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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.