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>The great thing about the web is that you are allowed to do this.

The truth is that for desktop(no idea about iOS or Android) I can also customize things as much as I want and I can do it faster and get better results. Desktop GUIs can give you pixel level access so you can have a button that plays a video inside it and rotates around while jump[ing and changing opacity.

About the Web I don't want to remove the option for everyone to invent their own menus if they want, I wish Mozilla,Google and Apple provide native options or as a stand alone library that you optionally include in your project.

For SPA this browser makers could colaborate to provide a standard framework, optional to use but would have all the basic features, bugs fixed and security updates, but it would be done by professional developers not as a side project by some Google dev with 0 experience in GUI toolkits.



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