Comment by eviks

> The web has supported these basic functions for over a decade. Surely in the year 2025, I thought, HTML5 is a good choice for these simple needs.

> What really happened was, I hit over 50 surprising problems related to gaps in web standards, requiring me to spend over half of the total development time

The half part might be surprising, but the fact that the web is broken in all the big and little places shouldn't really be, isn't that part of deep web lore that you get even by looking at the omnipresent dom tree, but especially if you're a druid and forest-native?

Like, "No you can't control the real size of anything" has been one of the many fundamental cascading flaws of that peculiar joke of a design system since forever, no?