[wruza]

And then some wonder why people resort to js-controlled spas and tend to forget how they cursed after their “simple html form” deleted input due to navigation or accidental refresh. Input is the most valuable data in a program because it cannot he recalculated and usually reqiures work to produce. Anything that doesn’t get this principle sucks.

That said, I don’t think src=form.json would help. Some type of a local permanent storage is basically required for app-level interaction, because the page state is so transient and fragile. I’d say it should be <form storage="foo."> and all controls would be saved as foo.<name> into localStorage. With <form storage="foo." reset> received from backend to reset it explicitly if needed.

[whywhywhywhy]

Most egregious thing is many times when people roll their own forms they end up actually removing things. The amount of forms I encounter where autofill and spellcheck are broken is crazy.

Maybe it’s some “best practice” library popular in the react ecosystem, I see it often enough to suspect that but autofill and spellcheck are my input and my business and a form shouldn’t decide if they’re enabled.