Comment by sixdimensional
1 day ago
It's too bad Htmx isn't just the native behavior of HTML, implemented in a cross-platform standard, that does not need to rely on Javascript in user space code. It could just be part of the browser. It should have been part of the browser.
It's awesome, I'm not criticizing Htmx at all to be clear, I am criticizing our seemingly inability to advance the core web technology of HTML in browsers to include this kind of tech natively.
If somebody from the WhatWG, e.g. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Opera, and Mozilla, etc. wants to embrace and support the creators of Htmx and wrap this into the browser natively, I will proudly retract my comment.
we are working on this minimum viable set of changes currently:
https://triptychproject.org/
Best wishes for getting those through and thank you!
I recall that was the intent of HTMX? His dream being to steer HTML towards these kinds of primitives and HTMX becoming deprecated.
Yep, you're right [1] - and the author is posting in here I believe, if he sees this - I just have to say, thank you for all you've done... maybe someday the browsers, WhatWG etc. will catch up with you...
[1] https://htmx.org/essays/future/#writing-research-and-standar...