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  • l
    another benefit of this approach, even though the UX is seen as old, is that each step of the form is saved on the server, so it's resumable, and you can easily send a user back to the appropriate step with a redirect
  • c
    It’s state and a little storage per user but for long complex forms I appreciate this feature so SO much
  • l
    That's definitely one way to do it, but you don't even need state, in the sense that your server can make a DB call and say "based on what data is present and what data is null, send the user to this URL". ymmv depending on your data model
  • c
    Uhm a db is state nonetheless right? Yeah it doesn’t need to be in memory. I did edited my text
  • l
    oh for sure, I understand what you're saying now. I just wanted to emphasize it's not additional state, since you are trying to save all that data somewhere anyway based on whatever they respond to the form
  • l
    there's been a lot of UX regression in the last 10 years that feels like progression, and I think one challenge for this community is to bring back that featureset without regressing on the modern feel. tricky!
  • c
    I don’t feel it that way
  • c
    Regression and such
  • c
    But sure it is not the hot technique everybody wants to talk about
  • c
    Our industry is in diapers
  • c
    And our cargo cults and hype chasing is laughable
  • c
    We have a lot of maturing to do but I think it is achievable
  • l
    regression definitely my personal opinion, but I think that users had a much better understanding of what click the back button would do on a website 10 years ago
  • c
    SPAs can mess badly with the back button. But those form resubmittion alerts can be confusing as well. I guess back buttons were always a little tricky
  • c
    Let’s all abandon http/https and write for the Gemini protocol
  • c
  • g
    > no subresources, ever
  • g
    mostly to do with modal dialogs being used when separate pages would do fine tbh, something i see in this community as well
  • l
    siren song of the modal
  • g
    youDontNeedAModalWindow.dev
  • m
    modals aren't really web friendly, for sure, but I'm as guilty as anyone of using them
  • g
    i haven't needed them yet but looking to use the new 
    <dialog>
    element at some point
  • g
    i use it in a private app
  • g
    very easy to use
  • n
    Hi! New to htmx here, with a question: I have a form with a bunch of inputs, I'm using htmx on the form and it works nicely, but I would like to submit the full form on keyup on any of the inputs, is that possible ?
  • r
    Yes, set hx-trigger to keyup https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-trigger/
  • n
    thanks a lot, and is there a way to get the usual get variables in the url (in the case of a hx-get form ?)
  • n
    actually, this doesn't send the full form, only the changes of that specific input
  • n
    I'll do more trial and error tomorrow thanks anyway!
  • n
    (
    hx-push-url
    does what i want at the form level \o/)
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