[AmpsterMan]

Htmx posits that current browsers aren't "truly" hypermedia since only anchor tags and forms can initiate GET/POST requests. It is more of a tech demo showing what client with ANY tag being able to do requests would look like.

That's why whether it is library/framework is besides the point. The author posits that these features should be in the spec, and tries as closely as possible to show what something might look like if we had it in the spec

[troupo]

> The author posits that these features should be in the spec

Does he? The author pretends that his library is what hypertext and hypermedia are as envisioned by Time Berners-Lee and Roy Fielding, and that his approach is the only true representation of both. And that's about it. Nothing about "this should be in the spec"

[joedevon]

You are missing the spirit of the whole thing. HTMX is a polyfill for the future state of browsers.

[troupo]

It's not, and it's not even pretending to be

[arbenpurben]

Um, yes friend, that’s exactly what it’s trying to be. Carson has said numerous times that in an ideal world, the html spec would evolve to the point the htmx becomes redundant. It’s not about htmx or any library/framework - it’s about extending html.

If that doesn’t convince you, then I’ve got nothing and suggest we both just go and enjoy some lazer horse/buffalo/pickle memes in the htmx twitter account

[dventimi]

> The author pretends that his library is what hypertext and hypermedia are as envisioned by Time Berners-Lee and Roy Fielding, and that his approach is the only true representation of both.

Does he? Evidence or it didn't happen.

[troupo]

They literally have an entire book written to contort those definitions to mean HTMX

[dventimi]

Then it should be easy for you to find at least one passage that demonstrates that.