Drupal now ships with HTMX, and there is currently a proposal to add a few of the building blocks into the HTML specification. The effort is nicknamed the triptych and the goal is to add three new HTML features:
- PUT, PATCH, and DELETE methods
- Buttons actions without forms
- Partial page replacement
This is all good for Drupal and our users. We could remove some messy code from the BigPipe module, marginally simplify form processing code, and remove a bunch of JS from the admin frontend and contrib modules. Pushing a proposal like this takes time and effort so the folks driving it, Alexander Petros and Carson Gross, are looking for letters of support from large organisations to add to their grant application. It's a short letter with the org's official letterhead:
If the proposal submitted by Carson Gross entitled “Hypermedia Infrastructure for Industrial and Government Web Services” is selected for funding by NSF, it is my intent to collaborate and/or commit resources as detailed in the Project Description or the Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources section of the proposal.
Contrary to the wording this is not binding, it is meant to show interest. I know Drupal powers many very large organisations, so if you work with large businesses, government entities, and you're willing to help the web rely less on JavaScript, please consider it. You can reach out on the Drupal Slack channel, the HTMX discord, or through the emails listed on the triptych website.
Would be great to hear from the folks at the EU, LocalGov, GovCMS, and the many other large organizations relying on Drupal!