Hypermedia Controls - From Feral to Formal

Hypermedia Controls: From Feral to Formal. An interesting paper that tries to locate and formalize a set of core primitives in hypermedia systems as expressed in HTMX. It identifies a "hypermedia control" as consisting of four mechanisms: (1) an element that (2) responds to an event trigger by (3) sending a network request and (4) placing the response in at some position in the viewport. By enhancing a hypermedia system with primitives that allow you to manipulate each of those mechanisms you can declaratively extend the system with your own hypermedia controls. An example they give: When the user clicks on the button the system will issue a network request to /clicked and place the response in the element. This is interesting in so far as it goes but I'm not convinced that the "hypermedia maximalist" approach is really all that great of a way to develop systems.