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Re:Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its... by nemomarx on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @12:28PM (#43344923)
if anything a standard element is easier to style on your end than everyone using a custom one right?
Re:Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its... by nartho on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @02:07PM (#43346021)
Not really, because for a native element you're dependent of their APIs. For example the color picker will only use the system color picker, a lot of other native elements are hard to style. So custom elements are often easier to style but harder to maintain and usually bad for accessibility.
Re:Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its... by devit on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:46PM (#43347492)
"styling on your end" means the _user_ (not the website designer/developer) deciding how controls should be styled and that's much easier if everything uses the same controls because you only need to specify it once and don't need a library to hook all possible UI frameworks that exist.
Re:Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its... by rerdavies on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:50PM (#43349948)
Users deciding how input controls are styled? Who exactly asked for THAT?
Re:Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its... by ErikBjare on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:46AM (#43350871)
Heard of userstyles?