Looking forward to porting my demos [1] from Datastar to HTMX once V4 is stable enough. Exciting stuff. Nice to see HTMX innovating again.

- [1] https://checkboxes.andersmurphy.com/

Interesting timing - I'm building genx.software which leans hard into implicit inheritance for the exact reason he is abandoning it. In my finance app, when the product owner changes their mind about decimal places for the 47th time (and it's always 47), the last thing I want is to hunt down every cell and add :inherited modifiers.

We treat everything as integers server-side (because floating point is the devil) and defer all formatting to the client. Implicit cascade means I can change fmt-x="currency:USD:decimals:2" in one place and watch it ripple down the entire table. It's 'maddening' the way CSS is maddening - which is to say, it becomes second nature after you stop fighting it.

That said, I fully understand the support ticket burden. Maybe the real lesson is: implicit inheritance is great when you control the domain (like 'format all money the same way'), but terrible when people want to do arbitrary things at arbitrary levels. I will bear that in mind as I complete genx.software

This looks great, although the version 4 alpha doesn't appear to be available at the suggested URL: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/htmx.org@4.0.0-alpha/dist/htmx....

"Couldn't find the requested release version 4.0.0-alpha."

htmx hasn’t had the piss taken out of it enough.

Neato. Sensible updates, no loss of support for previous versions? The software dream.

The image breaks the website on mobile for me.

I was just about to use this for a feature but i won't bother now, it won't pass the stability test. Thanks I guess.

The only big gripe I have about htmx is that the hx-on::after-request response it provides to your callback function does not automatically parse JSON content types like with e.g. jQuery.ajax(). Last time I brought that up, people simply questioned why I would ever want to do that in the first place.