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Chrome are prototyping a declarative client-side include mechanism. Together with the declarative API, it will also include a way to import HTML in JavaScript: import fragment from…

HTML primitives for updating parts of a document without a full page refresh

Interop is such a good idea, I’m surprised more developers don’t participate.

From Dominic Gannaway, the creator of Inferno, who worked on React at Meta and on Svelte 5 at Vercel. Feels like a hybrid of React and Svelte 3/4.

> We've explored the reactivity landscape. While early DOM templating proposals didn't include updating, userland systems have thoroughly explored the landscape by now, and discove…

> If the Records and Tuples proposal were progressing, JSX could maybe create Records with boxes, but that proposal has been stalled, especially on the record identity and box part…

> There are in-flight proposals for very low-level DOM update primitives, like DOM Parts, which target framework implementations, but I think higher-level APIs like full declarativ…

Chrome implemented a prototype, then the spec changed and they removed it, then they implemented the new version. I should have been clearer and said Chrome Canary and Firefox Nigh…

> There's no fundamental templating knowledge that's portable between stacks, and native DOM creation APIs like innerHTML are unsafe by default. setHTML() is already implemented in…

There is still innovation happening in frameworks. I do wonder if it is too early to start adding things like this to the browser. Web components landed way too early and now we’re…

A better non-modal dialog using the popover API.