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Nothing new under the sun. This is just a rip off of intercooler js. Only without jQuery. Times moved on and someone copied the idea (exactly) but with the aid of modern JavaScript didn't need jQuery. I mean it's nice that it's a bit more modern but still.
Just in case this isn’t sarcasm, you may be interested to know they’re made by the same person. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23330881
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Maybe because I'm "old" and use browsers the way they were used when I first started using the Internet, but I refresh often enough that I'd quickly lose patience with an "app" that broke because I used a very basic feature of the web.
If the site wasn't working it wouldn't break, it would download each page when you hit the back button. That would actually be a welcome result if I hit the refresh button wanting to make sure I was only looking at fresh data.
If a website or application basically has to do the 2024 equivalent of "don't hold it that way", it's the result of a broken development model.
> Calling htmx.ajax with no target or source now defaults to body (previously did nothing) This one jumped out to me as an interesting one for a patch release. Changing the default behavior feels like a breaking change, though hopefully there weren't sites expecting an ajax call to not do anything.
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If the site wasn't working it wouldn't break, it would download each page when you hit the back button. That would actually be a welcome result if I hit the refresh button wanting to make sure I was only looking at fresh data.
Any resource (ie page/URL) should function correctly with no regard to how that resource was loaded. That's the contract any server has with the client (browser), with no regard to what technology is being used to deliver the resource. If a website or application basically has to do the 2024 equivalent of "don't hold it that way", it's the result of a broken development model.
As ceo of htmx I’ll field any questions now
> Calling htmx.ajax with no target or source now defaults to body (previously did nothing) This one jumped out to me as an interesting one for a patch release. Changing the default behavior feels like a breaking change, though hopefully there weren't sites expecting an ajax call to not do anything.
I'm fine with breaking changes personally. An adherence to maintaining backward compatibility always is what leads to bloat and criticisms of "poor design" from HNers in the future.
Keep it slim, have one way to do things, and avoid the disaster that is js and python today.
> Calling htmx.ajax with no target or source now defaults to body (previously did nothing) This one jumped out to me as an interesting one for a patch release. Changing the default behavior feels like a breaking change, though hopefully there weren't sites expecting an ajax call to not do anything.
> Changing the default behavior feels like a breaking change I'm fine with breaking changes personally. An adherence to maintaining backward compatibility always is what leads to bloat and criticisms of "poor design" from HNers in the future. Keep it slim, have one way to do things, and avoid the disaster that is js and python today.