Comment by prmph

> For an open standard, how do you design it without agreement among a committee?

There's a difference between design-by-committee, and approval by committee. I'm arguing against the former. This is not to say that I have much hope that my approach will prevail, but it is an indictment of the W3C/WHATWG that they have not figured out a better process for producing technically excellent and coherent designs/specs in reasonable time.

Just invite submissions from small teams that each have produced a coherent design, and then the hard process of agreeing/voting on them will be a bit easier.

> If you really want a data grid, I’d suggest learning how to code one.

I have designed and implemented highly sophisticated data grids, and I have published related libraries on NPM. I wonder what in my comments makes you think I lack the competence or experience to implement one.

The problem is the JS bloat that we have to deal with. It is ugly that we have to load megabytes of JS to render any reasonably sophisticated web UI. Multiply that by the millions of sites that have to do that, plus all the upstream dependencies that are loaded with that, and also consider all the security/privacy issues with so much JS, and hopefully you'll begin to understand the critical need for a revamp of the HTML space.