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throwaway09432 | 3 years ago

Emphatically yes. The most popular UI framework's dropdown component, documentation reads as follows:

"Dropdowns are toggleable, contextual overlays for displaying lists of links and more. They’re made interactive with the included Bootstrap dropdown JavaScript plugin"

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dmitriid|3 years ago

Bootstrap dropdowns:

- don't follow platform conventions (don't trigger the actual system dropdowns with actual expected behavior)

- get cutoff by browser chrome when page is zoomed in (because you can't control that behavior from JS)

- default implementation's touch targets are too small

And that's for a framework which has had over a decade to make this work.

This is not to throw undue shade: they've done a very good job. But that's about as far as you can get.