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This is a glorious demonstration of someone really understanding the platform. I don't expect I would ever use it, but I think it's excellent.

I cannot believe how simple and elegant this is. Using an iframe as a request/response proxy to enable targeted replacement is just

Jesus Christ, this is all at once simple, powerful and useful. So little code, achieving so much!!!

Simple and powerful, as the vanilla web should be. Thank you for this (small) gem :)

Kind of impressive that the installation script was that small.

Jesus Christ, this is all at once simple, powerful and useful. So little code, achieving so much!!!

Apparently it breaks your back button too.

One downside of this approach is that it fills my browser history with a bunch of extra entries, which ain't ideal (especially for my Back button). I'd guess that's probably…

It's quite good. I noticed that my back button had to be repeatedly pressed to go back to write this comment, after interacting with the examples a few times. I'm sure that's…

Given that this uses `target`, doesn't it mean that unlike htmx you can't easily make this gracefully degrade when JS isn't enabled? And, yes, I know, saying "when JS isn't…

Zero noscript fallback. Please don't use this.

This seems likely to have issues with most "Content-Security-Policy" rules because of the inline script in "onload" and the iframe. Makes it a non starter in real world…

Reusing the <slot> element like this is a bad idea - it has very specific behavior in browsers. In a shadow root it'll be replaced by the children of the host element, no matter…

Except using a URL fragment refers to a “resource that is subordinate to another, primary resource” not a destination. They point out the URL abuse, so why do it? Slot is also a…

Here a version that works for cross origin requests. ``` <iframe hidden name=xhtmz onload="onmessage=x=>document.querySelector(x.data.target).innerHTML=x.data.content"></iframe>…

Oh, if this snippet is just a search and replacer... would it be possible for this to be a preprocessor as well? Would allow for noJS websites.

How it compares to htmx?

Can it trigger JS returned from the proxy? Something like <script>alert(123);</script>

That's a great hack and it shows how close the browser is to offering SPA natively. Just a few attributes and we could avoid the iframe. It's probably more useful to prove a…

I happened to spend a little more time on htmx this weekend which htmz was inspired by. htmx/htmz does do well for simple use cases, htmx does well for SSR heavy cases(e.g.…

Reminds me of pjax [1], except pjax works over XHR instead of an iframe and uses pushState by default to keep the back button working. [1]: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

This is very similar to how Hotwire does replacing of HTML generated on server side in Ruby on Rails.