Comment by tailscaler2026

12 hours ago

That's how progressive enhancement works. The website should work fine if JS is disabled. Then it's faster via htmx if JS is enabled, and more so if the backend is tuned as well.

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troupo  11 hours ago

None of the things HTMX adds will work. Which is easy to test by just turning off Javascript on most (any?) examples or sites using HTMX.

Because none of that is standard, none of that is understood by browsers, and requires HTMX to work.

Which is also besides the point of discussing whether or not HTMX invents its own templating, DSL, and requires the server to be aware of HTMX to to work properly.

  • zamalek  11 hours ago

    The things work, albeit with a full page load. As one of the ancestor comments said: progressive enhancement.

    • troupo  9 hours ago

      Lol. Even the hamburger menu doesn't work on htmx.org without Javascript.

      I'll let you find any working examples yourself.

      Most sites won't work or will be broken, too. Obviously You have to actually try and work on progressive enhancement, and not rely on marketing blurbs and promises of magic.

      I wonder if people blindly defenfing their favorite thingd actually know anything about them.

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