The main example in this article — immediately following a section on semantic HTML — is a list of <a> tags with the hrefs all set to `#` and the hyperlink beha

The main example in this article — immediately following a section on semantic HTML — is a list of <a> tags with the hrefs all set to `#` and the hyperlink behavior emulated with htmx. So we’ve taken what would otherwise be a perfectly functional list of links, removed the most important semantic attribute, broken a bunch of behavior and rendered them useless without a ~16kb JavaScript library. …and look, that’s an okay mistake to make — it takes time to learn this stuff — but when you also go out of the way to pine for “the halcyon early days of the web before Netscape dropped the JS-bomb” it makes it difficult to take you seriously. A list of links is, like, the most basic essence of a website; if you aren’t able to make that work without a JavaScript library, what are you even pining for?