[nitrogen]

So do all those things once, in the browser, and then every table can have them. That's maximally useful.

[pwinnski]

Define "those things," and then tell me what "those things" would be defined at before, say, live search came along. Because however you would have defined search boxes would not have allowed for the development of live search.

Iteration is what brings us progress that we enjoy, while also bringing with it the headache of reinventing the wheel over and over again. Both go hand in hand.

[tshaddox]

I’m not sure what you mean though. Just don’t allow anyone to develop their own table component after the first one was developed?

[5560675260]

Standards and browsers are already so bloated, that it's virtually impossible to create a new implementation.