[tsimionescu]

> Don't let developers style native elements. A drop down should not be designed by people except for the owners of the OS. Yes, it looks different on different OS but your application should be more than putting lipstick on a pig.

> Accept the fact that your application looks different on different OS'es but embrace the fact that your application works intuitively to the users, you have much less to maintain and focus on the logic of your app.

I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a case of 'how it once was' or 'how it should be', but this was never a reality, at least after the 90s. Native apps have always tried to style themselves just so (my company has a C# B2B GUI that has a little bit of assembly somewhere calling a Windows interrupt directly because they couldn't figure out another way to change the color of some window element). Even the earliest web pages were often trying to look as different as possible.