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CafeRacerlast Thursday at 10:35 PM1 replyview on HN

I spent days building this little perfect dropdown select thing, that is a hundreds lines of code and even more docs explaining what the hell is going on. Someone wasted the same amount of time before me. Someone else spent a lot of time before them. And so on.

I wish we have had more browser native implementations including some notion of virtual lists so the browser would not choke when rendering a lot of content.

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Eventually, this would be same as border-radius. It will get implemented and we'll forget about that forever.


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nine_klast Thursday at 11:39 PM

I thought the promise of Web Components was also about this: make a control once, make it styleable, let everyone reuse it.

I wonder why is this not happening widely.

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