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Comment by troupo

13 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.

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zamalek  13 hours ago

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

  • troupo  11 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.

    • yawaramin  10 hours ago

      Hamburger menu on the htmx.org site using JavaScript has nothing to do with htmx the framework itself, they’re completely unrelated. It wouldn’t be difficult to make the hamburger menu work without any JS by just using the Popover API, which again is completely unrelated to htmx and can be used by any frontend framework.

      I assure you I know quite a bit more than you when it comes to htmx and progressive enhancement, having built multiple progressively enhanced htmx apps that work almost exactly the same without JS.

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