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Doesn't a plain old <input> do it the way the platform does it?

I'm a little confused by your question. The discussion is about which button should be ok, and which should be cancel. The browser will not lay that out for you, you have to pick a layout.

There are some things where the browser will apply platform conventions, but nothing resembling the consistency you'd expect from (well-designed) native apps.

OK, I interpreted this thread more generally about controls, like the checkboxes and radio buttons of the OP.

The HTML input element without any styling applied is usually rendered by the browser using the UI conventions of the operating system. But nobody uses bare input elements these days.

<input> has never affected the button order. It also has no concept of primary / secondary button and for the better or the worst, has by default the styling the browser wants it to have, which might look like the native buttons of the current OS, or the native styling of one of toolkits anyway. System colors are not supported consistently too (although I'm discovering CSS4 a has interesting features [1], neat, but Chrome is lagging behind)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/system-colo...

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