that's very true, it's an extension of HTML as a hypermedia, and you can achieve useful patterns with as few as one or two additional attributes (that are extre

that's very true, it's an extension of HTML as a hypermedia, and you can achieve useful patterns with as few as one or two additional attributes (that are extremely symmetric with "normal" HTML). a good example is lazy loading: https://htmx.org/examples/lazy-load/ https://htmx.org/examples/lazy-load/ two plain HTML attributes that give you a nice tool for deferring expensive calculations so that users can get to interactive more quickly with the rest of the page