Discussion on: What HTML tag do you wish existed?

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Allen Miller • Sep 3 '20 • Edited

Html now is extendable, you can create a new tag by a simple css, like

CSS:
box { Border: 1px solid black }

Html:
< box >Test</ box >

And if you use JSX with Typescript, you can do fancy things

Nathan Kallman • Sep 3 '20 • Edited

I'm aware I can put basically anything in a tag and browsers will simply treat it like a div if they don't recognize it.
I'm also aware of HTML custom elements which allows expanding on point 1 to the nth degree using JS.
And yes, JSX used in React or most other rendering frameworks lets me code a page as though I've extended HTML to have all sorts of fancy tags.

None of those things are the point of my question; I'm making a wishlist of native, agreed upon, standardized HTML tags.

Allen Miller • Sep 3 '20

Oh sorry, I misunderstood the original question 😊
Ideally, I would love if the browser simplifies 3D so more developers can start exploring that area and introduce 3d UI that can be used in business apps.
I found this link on the internet a few years ago, someone made 1 million characters on a web page presented at the same time in 3d

alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/text...

The amount of content on the page, and the render performance slow hardware, is just stunning!

Nathan Kallman • Sep 3 '20

Yeah! Having more accessible 3D elements would help a lot with making web pages work well in things like VR and AR