If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

treve 56 points 9 comments July 16, 2026
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artisinal

I love how this clearly satirical piece unfortunately is how a lot of websites operate.

mireq2

Great satire but let's create that same for combobox with server side filtering. Now you have problem because it's not possible with native HTML elements. Many re-implementations are result of missing native elements.

jzer0cool

So a button big bang. Born the Light (Minimalist) and Dark patterns

brookritz

<input type="button"> ?

poisonborz

This would have been a very smart and useful article up until 3 years ago. Now with AI doing this work is a minute, with most if not all considerations baked in, if some strange quirk would need it. Frameworks and dependencies made and replaced by custom "ground-up" creations is now a plausible reality. Not necessarily useful but doable and most importantly, testable in a fraction of time. We should readjust our sensibilities to that.

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