[leecommamichael]

I expected a blog on how to write a button using a graphics API and basic OS interface; but instead I completely mistook (what the comments are saying is) sarcasm as advice on how to program for the web. I'm not a web guy, so I'm not really even sure why this is sarcastic, isn't semantic web good? I can't keep up with the opinions.

[ozim]

Semantic web is good if you are making web documents not web applications.

  Have a type and: submit a form; reset a form; or not do anything with the related form.  

No one uses buttons to submit a form in web applications. You use buttons to start/stop/change interaction flow.

Native browser controls are not workable in a modern web application. It is not that developers are lazy it is that you get requirements from businesses that no one would pay for implementing using native controls because it would cost too much to do it right, where right means „how customers want it and how they want to use it” not „technically right like some native browser control nerds feel world should work”.

[Sankozi]

Agreed, that point in the article is lacking any source. Big part of complexity of the implementation was introducing form attributes and behavior.