This is great. I had an idea to use named iframes and targeted forms for simple, server-rendered pages with built-in style-scoped widgets, without leaning into complex JS client-side. But, I never simplified it well nor expressed a polished and elegant realization of that idea, as this htmz looks to me to be.
A reminder to never give up good ideas, focus on excellence, and focus on refinement to a completion of an idea, and communicate well!
Also the comments here:
- This is a great hack and shows how close the browser is to offering SPA natively.
- This is a glorious demonstration of someone really understanding the platform.
- Simple and powerful, as the vanilla web should be. Thank you for this (small) gem :)
- This is a neat hack, I like it :). Thanks for sharing.
are exactly what I hoped to hear reflected about my creation, and are totally on point for what this type of thing should be. Close to the web-grain, using the given material of the web in the best way possible. Fuck yeah! :)
Thank you for being a genius! :)
And for inspiring about what's possible! :)
P.S - also your communication and marketing skills are top notch! I think the way you have communicated this elegant technical thing, from the choice of name, API, examples, copy -- is just awesome. I learn from it! :)
I am a little bit confused because your comments seem to imply initially that htmz is written by someone other than you, and then later that you wrote htmz.
Who are you and what is your relationship with htmz and its creators? Please be honest and refrain from violating federal law and FTC guidelines in your response.
You seem to have misinterpreted "[those comments] are exactly what I hoped to hear reflected about my creation". They weren't saying "I enjoyed hearing those comments about htmz, which is a thing I created" - they were saying "those comments are what I _had_ hoped to hear about my (unreleased and unnamed) creation, which indicates that htmz is a good implementation of a similar idea that I had"
I don't think this person is implying that at all (nor do I think that anyone needs to be trotting out federal law and FTC guidelines here :).
"I had an idea to use named iframes [...] But, I never simplified it well nor expressed a polished and elegant realization of that idea, as this htmz looks to me to be. [...] the comments here [...] are exactly what I hoped to hear reflected about my creation, and are totally on point for what this type of thing should be."
Seems pretty clear to me. This person had a similar idea but didn't complete it, and finds the flavor of appreciative "nice hack" energy (as opposed to "this is enterprise" or "this is a revolution" energy, I guess) appropriate for the project and the type of feedback they had wanted to hear had they completed their project.
> Who are you and what is your relationship with htmz and its creators? Please be honest and refrain from violating federal law and FTC guidelines in your response.
My name is John Galt and I wrote this library. When you learn who I really am, then you'll understand.
A reminder to never give up good ideas, focus on excellence, and focus on refinement to a completion of an idea, and communicate well!
Also the comments here:
- This is a great hack and shows how close the browser is to offering SPA natively.
- This is a glorious demonstration of someone really understanding the platform.
- Simple and powerful, as the vanilla web should be. Thank you for this (small) gem :)
- This is a neat hack, I like it :). Thanks for sharing.
are exactly what I hoped to hear reflected about my creation, and are totally on point for what this type of thing should be. Close to the web-grain, using the given material of the web in the best way possible. Fuck yeah! :)
Thank you for being a genius! :)
And for inspiring about what's possible! :)
P.S - also your communication and marketing skills are top notch! I think the way you have communicated this elegant technical thing, from the choice of name, API, examples, copy -- is just awesome. I learn from it! :)