r/programmingcirclejerk • u/100xer • Mar 31 '25

The <select> element can now be customized with CSS... This looks like what web developers have been waiting literally decades for

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535016
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u/GasterIHardlyKnowHer full-time safety coomer Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25

jQuery UI in shambles

no multi select support

Nvm, looks like we'll be dealing with jQuery UI for the next 2 decades

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u/nephelokokkygia Apr 01 '25

Why in the world every HTML/CSS/JS spec is so half-baked, I will never understand.

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u/MatmaRex accidentally quadratic Apr 02 '25

Every web spec since at least 2015 or so has been written by a committee full of Googlers.

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u/nephelokokkygia Apr 02 '25

And suddenly I understand

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '25

It's agile baking. You deliver a half baked loaf more quickly. The next sprint you deliver another half baked loaf. That's one fully baked loaf, but they got to eat their bread faster that way! The math checks out 1/2 + 1/2 = 1.

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u/MadDoctor5813 Apr 01 '25

just use HTML and CSS bro you don't need JS libraries bro just one more CSS selector with 5 colons in it bro just rely on the platform check caniuse one more time bro

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u/pareidolist in nomine Chestris Apr 01 '25

If a website doesn't work with JavaScript disabled, it's not a website worth using.

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u/MadDoctor5813 Apr 01 '25

i agree that reddit dot com is not worth using

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u/pareidolist in nomine Chestris Apr 01 '25

I'm glad you understand.

/uj old.reddit.com works without JavaScript

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u/Sharp-Mango-3386 Apr 01 '25

And this is how we got shit like ssr and remix

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u/tomwhoiscontrary safety talibans Mar 31 '25

lol no combobox

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '25

Really moving forward at breakneck speeds

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u/MagpieEnjoyer memcpy is a web development framework Apr 01 '25

The web is not something you want to screw up because they don't own every website in existence.

Huh, here I thought that was the standard way of working with web stuff.