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by bicsi 482 days ago
Wait, so frameset is basically htmx?
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I've been doing web development on and off for 30 years and in no other programming field have I seen this perpetual habit of rediscovering the wheel.
Hey, we may be spinning in circles, but at least the websites consistently get slower over the years
I’m having the same realization regarding Turbo.

Always thought it was a creatively simple solution, but had no idea the pattern had existed (and was used) for so long.

always has been (hx-target was taken directly from the target attribute on anchors, innerHTML as the default swap taken from how iframes behave)