I thought “HTML over the wire” was literally what the web has always been about from the very start. Even if you redefine “the wire” to “XHR requests” or “Ajax

I thought “HTML over the wire” was literally what the web has always been about from the very start. Even if you redefine “the wire” to “XHR requests” or “Ajax requests” it’s still weird to treat this as a revolutionary thing since the “X” in XHR and Ajax is “XML” which is just a sibling markup language to HTML. Also, IIRC the original Rails approach to Ajax like 15 years ago or so was sending page partials like this. It feels like we’re going in circles. (I’ve also never been impressed with their “turbo links” which just seem like “we think we can do caching better than the browser makers” and thus dubious. Core Rails seems great but I’m always wary of this stuff at the edges with the extra dollop of hype.)