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It's 2025, browsers are adding GPU access for JS, we can run native code with wasm, yet HTML still has no actual combobox support. WHATWG are not just clowns they are not even the whole circus, they are a worldwide consortium of circuses with Barnum at the helm.

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It's honestly embarrassing that we are twenty years since the browsers took control of HTML from the W3C and they still have nothing approaching even one tenth the capability of XForms.

The fact that legions of developers are working on browsers, and at the same time everyone scrambles to abstract away from the browser offerings towards JSX, Tailwind and TS is maddening.

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