Burke Holland on how the politics of standardisation is holding developers back
There probably isn’t a technology that the Web Platform needs more than Web Components. The lack of a native mechanism to extend HTML has led to an explosion of custom JavaScript UI components that look different, have different APIs and only work with certain frameworks. New JavaScript frameworks come and go, and the UI components that you used yesterday no longer work with the new framework you want to use today. Components are constantly being rewritten, wrapped and hacked together to try to keep up. As the creators of Kendo UI, nobody knows this better than us.
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