Comment by endemic
2 days ago
If this will stop the proliferation of terrible JavaScript implementations of <select>, I'm here for it.
2 days ago
If this will stop the proliferation of terrible JavaScript implementations of <select>, I'm here for it.
I know LoC is a terrible metric, but it always shocks me that things like react-select require 30k LoC.
21% the size of the code of the Apollo Lander to configure/style a select dropdown.
react-select does a lot more than style the select though, so even after this new standard for customizable selects is supported everywhere, react-select will still have about the same level of complexity as it does now.
But does it get even 21% of the way to landing on the moon?
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I salute your optimism. Really, this just gives developers more options to make designers lives more miserable, and vice-versa.
My thought was it is giving designers more options to make users’ lives more miserable.
I am honestly just blown away Google invested effort into a web standard that actually improves the web versus the dozens of web platform projects designed to let websites slurp more data.
This is something I actually look forward to being able to use when Firefox gets it.
There’s got to be a happy medium between using canvas to make the controls you actually want and browser-provided one-size-fits-nobody controls. I really thought MS was onto something with Silverlight’s with XAML but that died.