The <select> element can now be customized with CSS *in Chromium browsers*
It’s the web equivalent of the Twitter account that added “in mice” to medical headlines. Nice in theory, but it’ll take years before it’s usable and in all likelihood it’s just another experiment that’ll never go anywhere.
So at least 5 more years until in can actually be used.
Firefox already has indicated that they approve of the new proposal: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1060
We're only waiting on Safari now: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/386
Can't wait to use it in 2030 when my work stops supporting IE11