yeah it says on that page "Due to limitations of the OpenGL Core Profile with the WebGL renderer on most platforms linewidth will always be 1 regardless of the set value." anyway yeah I was trying to be snide

Ah, I see. Seems like there's a bunch of 2D cruft in the graphics hardware that hasn't been touched since 3D became possible.

I think you need to expand on the edit even more for this to make sense.

I think this change seems funny to me how late it is, front-enders at this point are used to making their own customizable drop downs. But standardization is nice I suppose. And the cross browser support thing.