> basically built for us old-skool types Glad I'm not the only one. Ever since the first HTMX article, I felt like I was kidding myself. I had/have this tho

> basically built for us old-skool types Glad I'm not the only one. Ever since the first HTMX article, I felt like I was kidding myself. I had/have this thought in my head that "no way that we were that close to having all this right 25 years ago." I'm coming around and seeing that this tech gets the job done by doing one thing really well, and the whole API around it is dead-simple and bulletproof because of it. It's that good-old UNIX philosophy that's the enabling tech here. While I can't say for certain that IE6 or early Firefox could have handled DOM swaps gracefully without real shadow DOM support, early Ajax provided the basic nuts-and-bolts to do all of this. So, why haven't we seen partial page updates as a formalism, sooner?