Web development would be a lot easier if the W3 would standardize some new Widgets that browsers have to support. I've noticed that many Javascript frameworks these days exist primarily to implement standard GUI widgets for the web. Boring GUI widgets like:
- Combo Boxes (see example)
- Tabs
- Trees
- Grids
- Dialogs
- Menus
- Tool tips
- etc etc
My problem isn't that these widgets aren't availabile in web applications, it is that a hundred different projects are all re-implementing the same thing. At what point should something so basic like a combo box just be added to HTML?
I guess there is always HTML6.