[pphysch]

It's not just shifting complexity. It improves locality of behavior (LoB). You can look at a <button> element and immediately know what it does (within the limited domain of "command"s). This is a dramatic improvement to readability.

[jauntywundrkind]

My long-shot hope is that the page can come to embody most of the wiring on the page, that how things interact can be encoded there. Behavior of the page can be made visible! There's so much allure to me to hypermedia that's able to declare itself well.

This could radically enhance user agency, if users/extensions can rewire the page on the fly, without having to delve into the (bundled, minified) JS layers.

There's also a chance the just-merged (!) moveBefore() capability means that frameworks will recreate HTML elements less, which is a modern regression that has severely hampered extensions/user agency. https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1307

[phatskat]

> My long-shot hope is that the page can come to embody most of the wiring on the page, that how things interact can be encoded there.

I would love this. As a Tailwind user the last few years, it’s really been refreshing to have my styles both readable and inline on the elements instead of filed away in SCSS I’ll never see again. Even with scoped styles, some components get large enough that it feels unwieldy