[zelphirkalt]

People have built "UIs" on websites for decades, without the current flavor of SPA web frameworks. It is actually very easy to put things like a navigation and forms and such things on a website. Most websites do not need more than that. They merely show some information. Maybe you can register through a form or login through a form to see some more information. Not every website needs to be a SPA. The use-case you are apparently relating to, the one of websites really needing a more complex desktop-like UI, is merely a small percentage of websites. If you find yourself building a SPA on every second project, then you are most likely just following hype.

If you find yourself wanting to put dialogs on a website, consider showing information in a different way, more appropriate to the web. Work on your assumptions of how things must be done and some problems will disappear without ever having to write gnarly code.

Aside from that, writing a dialog is really not that difficult. I've done that before and I didn't need any framework to do it. Just don't rely on its modality for security, obviously, because one does not rely on frontend code for security anyway. Element zapper will make short work out of any dialog, that tries to block the stuff underneath it.

Ultimately the browser is not the desktop. It has a different use-case. Too many people do not understand this and try to shoehorn things into being "like on the desktop". Write desktop programs, if you want the desktop (not Electron shit ...). Write websites, if you want the web and the browser. Both have their own quirks and complications. Trying to force one into the other will only lead to more complications. Good design pays attention to the medium.

[dmitriid]

> It is actually very easy to put things like a navigation and forms and such things on a website.

That's about 1% of 1% of what people want to build.

> Most websites do not need more than that.

That we can agree on

> If you find yourself wanting to put dialogs on a website, consider showing information in a different way, more appropriate to the web.

dialog is literally a web standard in the web platform you so ardently advocate for. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...

> Aside from that, writing a dialog is really not that difficult.

Tell me you've never built a proper accessible dialog without telling you've never built one.

> Too many people do not understand this and try to shoehorn things into being "like on the desktop".

I can empathise with this sentiment because I've expressed it myself many times. However, that ship has sailed and the platform has not adjusted in the least.