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Re:What feature would improve the web? by romaniv on Friday October 21, 2011 @10:37AM (#3139920)
This. It becomes harder and harder to develop interfaces using progressive enhancement, since the expectations from web interfaces are keep changing while the UI components available in native HTML are stuck in the early nineties. HTML 5 didn't fully address this issue.

For example, this is how sliders really should look like: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

We need trees. We need pure-HTML drag-and-drop support. We need simple components that can be combined to create complex, usable interfaces.

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Re:What feature would improve the web? by mushishi on Friday October 21, 2011 @02:12PM (#3140935)
I disagree about the slider. That is not a good solution; using it strains hand, and causes trouble especially for elderly people. Also it does not give a clue what is the range.
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