No, you were told ‘the things work’, with progressive enhancement. Like many frontend things, progressive enhancement isn’t automatic with htmx. But it’s relatively easy and best of all works with any web server, not just JavaScript backends. Your criticism is basically that it’s not perfect, so it’s worthless. No, it works great for many use cases. And your judgement is clouded by your biases.
>> Which is also besides the point of discussing whether or not HTMX invents its own templating, DSL, and requires the server to be aware of HTMX to to work properly.
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> The things work, albeit with a full page load. As one of the ancestor comments said: progressive enhancement.
Oh. It turns out things don't work, neither on HTMX's own site, nor on most sites built with it.
Why do you keep arguing theory when reality is right there for anyone to see?
> Your criticism is basically that it’s not perfect, so it’s worthless.
No. My criticism is that HtMX authors and proponents keep presenting HTMX as something it objectively isn't despite actual verifiable reality.
I literally said what I mean in my first comment which started this pointless thread.
As I said in a sibling comment:
At this point I'm tired of pointless arguing with reality-denying people.
Adieu.
You inferred ‘reality’ by looking at examples that agree with your argument and ignoring ones that don’t. This is not theory, we have actually built this stuff. We’ve been telling you this over and over again. A couple of hand-picked counter-examples doesn’t change that.
Good luck with your confirmation bias fallacies though.