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tleb_ | 1 year ago

I see two differences: (1) the software stack on the server side and (2) I guess there is JS to be sent to the client side for HTMX support(?). Both those things make a difference.

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victorbjorklund|1 year ago

The size of HTMX compressed is 10kb and very rarely changes which means it can stay in your cache for a very long time.

galangalalgol|1 year ago

I'm embedded so I don't much about web stuff but sometimes I create dashboards to monitor services just for our team, tganks for introducing me to htmx. I do think html+css should be used for anything that is a document or static for longer than a typical view lasts. Arxiv is leaning towards HTML+css vs latex in acknowledgement that paper is no longer how "papers" are read. And on the other end, eBay works really well with no js right up until you get to an item's page, where it breaks. If ebay can work without js, almost anything that isn't monitoring and visualizing constant data (last few minutes of a bid, or telemetry from an embedded sensor) can work without js. I don't understand how amazon.com has gotten so slow and clunky for instance.

I have been using wasm and webgpu for visualization, partly to offload any burden from the embedded device to be monitored, but that could always be a third machine. Htmx says it supports websockets, is there a good way to have it eat a stream and plot data as telemetry, or is that time for a new tool?