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by emmacharp 695 days ago
Why would you need a custom selectbox in the example you provided? Because you could use the menu element with the popup API and AJAX if I understand your example correctly.

On a sidenote, do you know about HTMX? If so, what do you think about it?
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9dev 695 days ago
The popover API is pretty much brand new. Sure, that would probably work. That misses my point, however; lots of basic building blocks of modern UIs users expect are missing from browsers today (or on the popover case, yesterday) and need to be added manually.

HTMX is the same story—it's what HTML could be, but isn't, unless monkey-patched in userland.

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emmacharp 694 days ago
Yes it's still and always evolving and we need less and less of the heavy JS frameworks to produce interfaces. HTMX is way lighter than React, for instance. And from what I know, it's enough for many, many app use cases.
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