[threeseed]

Especially hilarious when you think of the rising popularity of HTMX.

WebObjects at the time revolutionary model of using the URL for state management would work really well with the new trend back towards server side rendered components.

[hugi]

Totally. I've been very happy to see the world embrace htmx in the last year and it's given me confidence knowing I'm doing the right thing with ng-objects.

The methodology htmx uses is in many ways identical to what we've been doing in the WO world for almost 20 years using Ajax.framework (which I don't know if you're familiar with), a WO plugin framework that most importantly adds "partial page updates". So you can wrap a part of a page/component in a container element, and target it so only that element gets rendered/replaced on the client side when an action is invoked (link clicked, form submitted etc.).

And yes, combined with WO's stateful server side rendering and URLs, it's ridicilously powerful. I usually design my WO apps so users never actually see a stateful URL, they always land on "static URLs" while stateful intra-page work happens through page replacements. I love it.

[pjmlp]

It is basically a whole generation rediscovering what we were doing in the 2000's, now that SPA craziness went too far.