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2026-07-28
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Why plain HTML components still matter

Frameworks change. Semantic markup, scoped CSS, and defensive JavaScript remain portable.

A downloadable component should be understandable before it is clever.

Plain files create a clean handoff point for prototypes, marketing sites, CMS themes, and application shells.

The best components still make accessibility and responsive behavior part of the default, not an optional cleanup pass.


A practical test

Open the standalone export, disconnect the network, and use the component with a keyboard. If the core experience breaks, the preview was hiding a dependency.

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