have you seen any interest by the browsers to build htmx features as experimental browser features, with the goal of htmx features becoming browser standards?
When looking at the various options, I always enjoyed your architectural choice of htmx being an extension of html, for that very reason. Similar to "phonegap" hoping that the phonegap code base would get smaller and smaller as mobile browsers built more of those features natively. :)
i haven't heard of any browsers implementing these features, but that's the right thing: they would be far more effectively implemented by the hypermedia client and it wouldn't be too much work technically
my sense is that HTML is constrained by social/organizational issues rather than technical ones at this point
hopefully someone on the chrome team notices htmx at some point and HTML starts making progress again
question - which parts of htmx would be better from an end-user-perspective if they were built into the browser? i assume "all features" might be a bit faster, but is there anything which would be night and day better if it wasn't a js library?
the browser vendors have been more than happy to use experimental features to chart their own course, which I think can be a good thing to spawn innovation and healthy competition. (given the standards bodies will be slower and more prudent - similar to how python doesn't want "pedantic" to be part of python core, because that would hurt pedantic's innovation, not improve it)
Maybe the way someone from the chrome team could tap into "business value" of "let's build these htmx features in chrome" would be that it allows developers to write "internal/developer/crud apps" where a "only supported in chrome" is acceptable.....
HTMX makes heavy use of replacing branches of the DOM with HTML partials fetch wit get/post requests
There a ton of additional features builtin to HTMX, but I'd love to see just this basic primitive built into browsers. It's related to the element transitions API that has been working it's way into browsers, but approaches it from the angle of HTML partials instead of diffing two full pages durn SPA navigation.
When looking at the various options, I always enjoyed your architectural choice of htmx being an extension of html, for that very reason. Similar to "phonegap" hoping that the phonegap code base would get smaller and smaller as mobile browsers built more of those features natively. :)