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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Replying to @domenic
Disagree
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.1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes -
Tho checkbox is a tiny problem - over the weekend I was inspecting the Twitter web client compose dialogue and the amount of work the devs had to do to make a slightly advanced text area with mentions and hashtags work is massive I'm writing
@gregwhitworth a 3 page email rn.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
I look froward to your three page mail.
@slightlylate and@domenic maybe@stubbornella and us should jump on a call some time. I'll be in town for Google I/O if you all want to chat as we're actively looking at this story.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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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.2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
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I wasn't suggesting adding them to HTML; hoping instead for exactly what you're suggesting. The positioning logic is hard; we can make that easier. The rest should be straightforward.
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FWIW, the difficulty level in "adding something to HTML" and "adding a low-level API to enable userspace" isn't much different; but the impacts are massively divergent...which is why we wrotehttps://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto …
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