Unplanned Obsolescence Blog About RSS June 13, 2024 This past weekend, I gave a talk entitled “The Life & Death of htmx” at Big Sky Dev Con. Summary The thesis of the talk is that, with 30 years of real-world usage evidence, we have a clear understanding of HTML’s limitations as hypertext, and with just three small additions to HTML, we can address most of the use cases that the declarative AJAX libraries (htmx, turbo/hotwire, unpoly, pjax, etc.) exist to resolve. These three additions are: Supp...