[hakfoo]

I always blamed it on the fact we stopped adding HTML tags too early.

There were a lot of UI elements that were obviously needed if you were going to use a browser as an interactive app platform, but were easily passed over when minimal forms were considered sufficient.

I could see, for examples, a consistent WYSIWYG edit-box, a dropdown menu construct, a select-with-manual-override, consistent date and time widgets. Instead we got a bunch of inappropriate elements glued together with CSS and JavaScript to sort of work, but in unpredictable, non-native ways.