HTML as Post
Sam Butler (November 15th, 2022)
Imagine a network for social interacation and sharing, where the messages are snippets of HTML.
Amy Artist
2 minutes ago
this is a crazy
message
on
the
web!
Tim's Twitter Feed
5 minutes ago
Design twitter from scratch using sqlite, pubsub, go and htmx.
— workdad (@workdaddev) November 5, 2022
What are the questions to be asked in order to arrive at a workable design?
Wow Interactive
6 minutes ago
Carly Carmichaels
10 minutes ago
You could share hypermedia, blogs, applets, websites, REPLs. You could share anything.
(This should align with HTML-Driven Development and "Tools for Conviviality", which specify environmental friendliness and low energy consumption. If this would increase energy consumption, we should reflect. Perhaps by sharing snippets of HTML rather than entire websites/apps, the web could be slimmed/scaled down — this should be investigated carefully.)
People wouldn't need to "clickthrough." What someone wishes to share would be right there in front of you.
This could even enable adversarial interoperability / "com com" (Doctorow). You could see Tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram posts, LinkedIn posts, Reddit posts, TikTok videos, YouTube videos — all in the same interface!
HTMX seems well-suited for this. Anybody interested in collaborating / exploring it?