> I believe we now have virtually a complete set of all UI elements needed to build any modern web application.
This is pretty far from the case. Three examples:
* Dropdown menu. This is a superset of selects, which can only contain options: a dropdown can contain anything in its dropdown, including a nav which contains links displayed as icons, for example.
* Carousels/slideshows.
* Tab areas.
I've got a library of these kinds of elements implemented as CustomElements, but they're pretty geared toward the websites I've worked on in the last year, so I want to spend more time making them extensible before I release them as open source--I don't want people depending on my work until they are better-designed.
That said, HTML by default has gotten a lot more powerful than a lot of web devs know about. In particular, there's a lot of custom data lists and date pickers out there which are less powerful than the built-in HTML datalist and input type='date'
This is pretty far from the case. Three examples:
* Dropdown menu. This is a superset of selects, which can only contain options: a dropdown can contain anything in its dropdown, including a nav which contains links displayed as icons, for example.
* Carousels/slideshows.
* Tab areas.
I've got a library of these kinds of elements implemented as CustomElements, but they're pretty geared toward the websites I've worked on in the last year, so I want to spend more time making them extensible before I release them as open source--I don't want people depending on my work until they are better-designed.
That said, HTML by default has gotten a lot more powerful than a lot of web devs know about. In particular, there's a lot of custom data lists and date pickers out there which are less powerful than the built-in HTML datalist and input type='date'