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0 pointswtbob9y ago0 comments

Good points, but surely all that knowledge could be encoded once into some CSS attributes, rather then rewritten every time for every JavaScript framework on every site?

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scrollaway9y ago

A "correct" fix would be to build stylable core UI elements from the chrome itself. Leave the accessibility to the browsers (and by extension their UI toolkit). For this, you need a standard `<menu>` element, which is in HTML5.1:

https://w3c.github.io/html/interactive-elements.html#the-men...

Piskvorrr9y ago

Could be. And polyfilled for the monstrosity that is IE. That's a huge pie in the sky - whereas with JS, that's something which has already been here for at least a decade.

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0 pointswtbob9y ago0 comments

Good points, but surely all that knowledge could be encoded once into some CSS attributes, rather then rewritten every time for every JavaScript framework on every site?

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scrollaway9y ago

https://w3c.github.io/html/interactive-elements.html#the-men...

Piskvorrr9y ago

Could be. And polyfilled for the monstrosity that is IE. That's a huge pie in the sky - whereas with JS, that's something which has already been here for at least a decade.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse