Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design
by masswerk on Sunday April 12, 2026 @07:09PM
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> Can you imagine if every button on every site was the same Windows button gray color, regardless of the site's color? It'd be awful!
As it happens, this is how it was for years and years, actually, for most of the existence of the Web. The basic appearance of form elements used to be un-styleable, locked to the OS UI-appearance, for general usability concerns.
As it happens, this is how it was for years and years, actually, for most of the existence of the Web. The basic appearance of form elements used to be un-styleable, locked to the OS UI-appearance, for general usability concerns.