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> Eventually, htmx semantics will become part of the web standard Why do you think that will be the case? I'm not aware of any effort being made to evolve htm
by hobofan 3y ago
> Eventually, htmx semantics will become part of the web standard
Why do you think that will be the case?
I'm not aware of any effort being made to evolve htmx into a web standard (either by introduction into existing specifications or direct adoption by browser), so this is about as baseless of a claim as someone saying "I see JQuery as a future polyfill" in ~2006.
- intrasight 3y agos/will/may It may be aspirational on my part, but I do hope that HTML can evolve. JQuery isn't a good analogy as it's not extending HTML.
- jbverschoor 3y agoBecause it's a damn good name. As a matter of fact, when I read about HTMLX, I assumed it was a browser supported feature that I had missed
- intrasight 3y agoHadn't considered it before, but thinking about it now, I can see that a brilliant name choice probably played a big role in the traction that it's had.
- recursivedoubts 3y agoironically I originally rejected it in favor of "kutty": https://htmx.org/posts/2020-5-17-kutty-er-htmx-0-0-3-is-released/ https://htmx.org/posts/2020-5-17-kutty-er-htmx-0-0-3-is-rele... better to be lucky than good, I guess
- intrasight 3y agoI, for one, am glad that you didn't release a self-harm framework ;)
- recursivedoubts 3y agoyeah, looking back it's ridiculous, how could I not use htmx when I had managed to snag htmx.org? but I'm an idiot. thankfully the fates conspired to force my hand
- twic 3y agoThe X is a bit meaningless though. Xtended? It could have leaned into the hypermedia angle and been Hyper-HTML, or H2ML.