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We hope the landing page conveys that message! https://www.xmlui.org/

Here's the How To for that: https://docs.xmlui.org/howto#set-the-initial-value-of-a-sele...

Our hope is that by building up a set of these patterns, and making them available to agents via MCP, it will be as easy as possible to get things right.

We are aiming for people who not only don't want (or are not able) to learn/write React, but also CSS.

> exercise for the reader

The demo app shows a bunch of patterns. https://docs.xmlui.org/tutorial-01

The VSCode extension can help with some of that: https://docs.xmlui.org/vscode

We will soon have a way for standalone apps to shed unused dependencies, just as the build for the docs site does.

Thanks for the 404 heads-up.

I am not sure about prior art but the ability to mix built-in and user-defined components, and fluidly refactor the mixture, feels very powerful to me.

I wrestled with how much history to bring into this because I want to look forward not back. The purpose of the announcement is to encourage people to try the tool and find out for themselves if it is a productive way to build the user interfaces they need.

Beautifully said. All that matters in the end: will it be immediately useful to people like you who imagine that it might be?

I do indeed.

We would love to know how that goes.

htmx enhances HTML with dynamic behavior using attributes like hx-get, letting the server drive updates via HTML fragments. It feels like a modern VB6: fast to prototype, pragmatic, and server-centric.

XMLUI takes a more structured approach: apps are built from declarative XML components with spreadsheet-like reactivity and client-side data binding. It’s closer to composing interfaces from reusable parts than wiring up behaviors.

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