[tasogare]

> I often wonder whether we need yet another UI framework implementation?

Because the web wasn’t designed for applications UI interfaces (hence the CSS grid which landed only in 2017), so it lacks basic primitives and behaviors that are then re-implemented slightly differently by different people. On the contrary, a UI framework designed for this such as the Windows Forms on Windows desktop is still very usable (and used) to make applications, 20 years after its release; and is only concurrenced by a single newer framework (WPF) which actually brings a lot of improvements on the table.

Actually the web does it half-way: there are a set of common elements (input text, button, etc.) but some useful components are missing, and some of the existing one are hard to style. This support should be added in browsers, then custom code wouldn’t be needed anymore.

[pbowyer]

There is an ongoing effort at https://open-ui.org/ to add these basic primatives. I'm throwing my effort behind the <select> replacement and we welcome input from everyone.

If I can avoid writing another autocomplete and solving the Esc corner cases, the effort will have been worthwhile...

[willhoyle]

Thanks for bringing this up. I didn't know about open-ui. I think something like this is becoming more and more necessary.