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The time is right for a DOM templating API

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218 points mdhb | 2 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.549s | source
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jlukic ◴[27 Jun 25 05:44 UTC] No.44393980[source]▶
It’s worth noting this was written by maybe the person with the most experience in the space i can think of—-the primary author of Lit / Polymer working at web components on Google and contributing on many core DOM specs that have become part of the web platform.
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troupo ◴[27 Jun 25 07:42 UTC] No.44394620[source]▶
> It’s worth noting this was written by

by one of the people wrecklessly barging forward with half-baked specs that introduced significantly more problems than they solved, pushed a "solution" that requires 20+ new web specs to barely do all the things user-space is already doing while completely ignoring and gaslighting anyone who wasn't 100% on board with what they were doing.

Safari argued that there should be a declarative ways for this 15 years ago

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1. gwd ◴[27 Jun 25 11:48 UTC] No.44396018[source]▶
> wrecklessly

<pedantic>

It's "recklessly". "reck" is a very old word meaning "to care, heed, have a mind, be concerned about"; so "reckless" means "without taking heed".

I actually thought it was directly related to "reckon" (meaning "to think or calculate"), but when I looked it up it turned out not to be the case (except much further back in the etymological tree).

</pedantic>

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2. troupo ◴[27 Jun 25 14:12 UTC] No.44396954[source]▶
As I get older my brain and my fingers get more and more divorced from each other :)

My brain knows it "reckless", my fingers type "wreckless". Same happens to a few other words, too.