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Worth noting:

- browsers have had native text tooltips for at least 20 years

- there are active proposals intended to address richer tooltips and similar use cases

- adding new controls to the web is a complex matter because there are a lot of stakeholders to consider, and a lot of consensus to build among implementers/standards authors

- complaints about missing UI features on the web often overlap with complaints about standards bloat and browser bloat

- this article is rich in technical information that’s applicable more broadly than the tooltip use case, and maybe every single article about anything web on HN doesn’t need to be drowned in generic myopic complaints about the web