Re:In Defense of the Modern Web
by filleduchaos on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:28AM
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> Are you thinking something like ShareDB? https://github.com/share/sharedb
Ah - I didn't have anything quite that powerful in mind, more like fairly simple, browser-local enhancements to make interacting with regular old HTML pages more pleasant. For example a drop-in library that would save the state of a form and restore it on a refresh, like the old formsaver jQuery plugin. I would like to see an ecosystem of libraries like that again
Are you thinking something like ShareDB? https://github.com/share/sharedb
As a person who is browsing the web, I do want server rendered pages, correct history of navigation, urls to match pages, a lack of refreshes, live collaboration with other users. What I dont want is a manual refresh to lose anything or bring me to a different page. And I want the site to work, and progressively fail if I have javascript off.
Most interactivity can still be server side. Look at google.com, as you type in a search query, and they return a static update with results matching what youve typed so far.