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by crooked-v 924 days ago
It's painful sometimes to think of the sheer number of man-hours wasted because browsers have never added a combobox or any way to style select dropdowns.
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There's a new spec for better dropdowns in the works: https://css-tricks.com/the-selectmenu-element/

The whole reason they've been bad is "We can't change `<select>` because it would break backwards compatibility".

So the new solution is to create a new element: `<selectmenu>` which is made to be customised, while still being accessible.