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Web components are okay

Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a good opportunity to reach across &#82…

But of course sometimes you have to render aria-* attributes to make your interface accessible, and nobody would argue that a couple milliseconds are worth excluding screen reader users. When I see this kind of stuff, I’m reminded of speedrunners trying to shave milliseconds off a 5-minute run of Super Mario Bros using precise inputs and obscure glitches. From my own personal experience: at Salesforce, we build a client-rendered app, with its own marketplace of components, with strict backwards-compatibility guarantees, where the intended support is measured in years if not decades.

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