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Do you like RSS, Python, and web development? Do you want to start contributing to FLOSS?
This is my personal RSS reader (running locally only), opened as a FLOSS project. There's a lot that I plan to add to it, but I don't have so much time for now. However, it might be interesting to some folks, at least for learning purposes. So, here it goes.
MESH: I tried HTMX, then ditched it - Alex Moon
｢ My big problem with HTMX, as it stands, is that it lacks that structure. Taking a look at HTMX the first time, my reaction was: "...so, declarative jQuery." I could see, as if before my very eyes, the spaghetti that inevitably grows out of a library like this. HTMX leaves it up to the developer to impose discipline on their code, however they see fit ｣
MESH: I tried HTMX, then ditched it - Alex Moon
｢ My big problem with HTMX, as it stands, is that it lacks that structure. Taking a look at HTMX the first time, my reaction was: "...so, declarative jQuery." I could see, as if before my very eyes, the spaghetti that inevitably grows out of a library like this. HTMX leaves it up to the developer to impose discipline on their code, however they see fit ｣
More #HTMX news for #Drupal, how to make cascading selects in Drupal: https://tresbien.tech/blog/how-use-htmx-forms-drupal-113/
More #HTMX news for #Drupal, how to make cascading selects in Drupal: https://tresbien.tech/blog/how-use-htmx-forms-drupal-113/
Recently I got sufficiently annoyed at authoring posts in two places so that they were visible both here and on HaugenHus: Now – this is also in part because I prefer to write in Markdown which GoToSocial handles marvellously – that I decided to start looking at options. Of course there are many, but I chose to pursue an exclusively client-side solution with a static pageset to lighten the load on my little Raspberry Pi.
I landed on a solution built on HTMX + GoToSocial:RSS + XSLT which can be seen on HaugenHus: XSLT Test, but was horrified to find that after 26 years Firefox hasn’t managed to solve for HTML within an XML node. Of course it’s easy to get frustrated with a second-rate browser like Firefox 😁 – WebKit all the way baby! – but why bother when someone else has keep the flame war burning for 24 years Bug 98168 🤣. Of course with every ugly battle there are some heroes, and Scott Trenda was clearly one of these both offering a viable workaround and serving as a calm voice of reason.
So with a viable workaround to my XSLT woes, why haven’t I finished this little project? Well, there are two reasons: the first is that a workaround should never be allowed to become a permanent solution; and secondly, my WebKit enthusiasm may have been misplaced. It turns out that the fine folks over at Apple – @annevk – have expressed interest in killing my XSLT dreams 🥺.
With all of that said, what I found most interesting about this whole thing is that while I have been aware of XSLT for years, I unknowingly decided to play with it just as a storm appears to be brewing. Eventually I will get over my desire to minimize my dependence on JavaScript, but until then I’m sure there many other ways to solve this problem. I might just need to change the constraints.
(Maybe @gotosocial@superseriousbusiness.org would give us JSON Feed . . . feature request incoming after a bit more research 🤓.)
XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance
#Now #XSLT #Firefox #WebKit #GoToSocial #HTMX #RSS #JSONFeed
Recently I got sufficiently annoyed at authoring posts in two places so that they were visible both here and on HaugenHus: Now – this is also in part because I prefer to write in Markdown which GoToSocial handles marvellously – that I decided to start looking at options. Of course there are many, but I chose to pursue an exclusively client-side solution with a static pageset to lighten the load on my little Raspberry Pi.
I landed on a solution built on HTMX + GoToSocial:RSS + XSLT which can be seen on HaugenHus: XSLT Test, but was horrified to find that after 26 years Firefox hasn’t managed to solve for HTML within an XML node. Of course it’s easy to get frustrated with a second-rate browser like Firefox 😁 – WebKit all the way baby! – but why bother when someone else has keep the flame war burning for 24 years Bug 98168 🤣. Of course with every ugly battle there are some heroes, and Scott Trenda was clearly one of these both offering a viable workaround and serving as a calm voice of reason.
So with a viable workaround to my XSLT woes, why haven’t I finished this little project? Well, there are two reasons: the first is that a workaround should never be allowed to become a permanent solution; and secondly, my WebKit enthusiasm may have been misplaced. It turns out that the fine folks over at Apple – @annevk – have expressed interest in killing my XSLT dreams 🥺.
With all of that said, what I found most interesting about this whole thing is that while I have been aware of XSLT for years, I unknowingly decided to play with it just as a storm appears to be brewing. Eventually I will get over my desire to minimize my dependence on JavaScript, but until then I’m sure there many other ways to solve this problem. I might just need to change the constraints.
(Maybe @gotosocial@superseriousbusiness.org would give us JSON Feed . . . feature request incoming after a bit more research 🤓.)
XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance
#Now #XSLT #Firefox #WebKit #GoToSocial #HTMX #RSS #JSONFeed
Do you like RSS, Python, and web development? Do you want to start contributing to FLOSS?
This is my personal RSS reader (running locally only), opened as a FLOSS project. There's a lot that I plan to add to it, but I don't have so much time for now. However, it might be interesting to some folks, at least for learning purposes. So, here it goes.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/114878688112419149
You might have a look if maybe there isn't a cool combination to make with #Datastar at https://data-star.dev which recently went v1.0
They continue where #HTMX stopped, in #hypermedia land, where they use #WebComponents for complex UI.
Put together a pretty cool live @ListenBrainz widget on my website! Auto-updates every 10 seconds, and shows as much metadata as I can cram into the widget space. All that metadata is the bonus of ListenBrainz being so closely tied to MusicBrainz
(and don't worry, I have some pretty aggressive caching so I won't hammer the ListenBrainz or MusicBrainz APIs)
Put together a pretty cool live @ListenBrainz widget on my website! Auto-updates every 10 seconds, and shows as much metadata as I can cram into the widget space. All that metadata is the bonus of ListenBrainz being so closely tied to MusicBrainz
(and don't worry, I have some pretty aggressive caching so I won't hammer the ListenBrainz or MusicBrainz APIs)
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
