Put me down as a vote for "no magic surrounding the

html

tag." I understand the discussion above, and what generated it - but isn't it really starting to run pretty far afield from the whole HATEOAS way of doing things? IMO, anything that jeopardizes the "throw

hx-boost="true"

on the

body

tag, and it 'just works!'" makes it not a desirable solution. htmx is about simplification and straightforwardness. It's not a "run your SPA piece-by-piece" library, it's a "make your MPA feel like it's a SPA" library. As an extension, I think it would be fine (and

head

merging is a slightly different discussion, though I have some "just works" concerns there), but to introduce magic in the main library that doesn't go with its original intent seems, to me, to not be the best idea. My (unrequested) $.02 - probably worth twice what you paid for it...