[karmarepellent]

Are you sure HTMX aims to be eventually incorporated in some form or another into the HTML spec? I think I read most of the blog articles on the website but I cannot remember such a statement.

Another question in the same vein: In your view, why is it so important for the project to advance the HTML spec?

By the way I am actually curious about this, I am an avid user of HTMX, but have never contemplated this.

Edit: Ok I think I get it now. HTMX provides hypermedia controls that should have been in the standard from the beginning. It also more-or-less maintains the current semantics of the web as defined in the HTML spec. Therefore it is logical to eventually include it into the standard. That it?

[radlad]

Maybe not an explicit aim, but it sounds like Carson Gross holds a positive view of browsers implementing these features directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35831981

[recursivedoubts]

yeah, i don't think the htmx API would be the right thing to add to HTML, it's too specific to htmx, but the idea of generalizing hypermedia controls is something i hope the browser people look at

[troupo]

They have, and it failed. "Hypermedia controls" are for machines, first and foremost. That's what RDF and semantic web were supposed to be about, but that never took off in any significant shape or form.

[dragonelite]

Yeah that was the same impression i had of HTMX it makes sense to integrate HTMX functionality into HTML 6 or whatever.

[paulddraper]

It's not so much that HTMX itself would be included, as much as its philosophy of improved HTML.