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Forms are where web standards are most lacking. HTML5 took us from the stone age to the bronze age by adding some still-basically-useless inputs for e.g. colours and dates.

Everyone is reinventing the wheel over and over here and it's infuriating. I recently tried to find a good component to provide an internationalised currency input - it's incredibly difficult to find a quality implementation for this, yet it's something that the vast majority of web applications will need to use at least once. Same goes for phone numbers.

It would be nice to see web components take these roles away from frameworks. It would be nicer to see web standards identify the importance of many of these inputs in the first place.




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