Open UI

With apologies, a lot of these feel like a grab bag of elements.

But Keith Cirkel's Invoker/Actions feels like a big paradigm idea, something that de-javascriptizes & encodes in html the primary intents of the web. There's something super enticing here, a slim/trim layer of paradigm, which honestly we have seen little of expressed in the web itself (whereas libraries have spiraled towards their own meaning). (Maybe css scopes being a good counter example forwards.) https://open-ui.org/components/invokers.explainer

(There's also Keith's Interest Invokers, https://open-ui.org/components/interest-invokers.explainer/)

Keith is Github's Catalyst framework's primary author. Very Stencil.js inspired, and a clear predecessor of the ideas here; actions and targets. A similar casting of intent out of js and into the DOM. Declare the world! https://github.com/github/catalyst

Catalyst really had me for a bit, and supposedly had pretty heavy rotation within GitHub as the tool that minted the components we saw. Visible progress has really slowed though, as there haven't seen signs of life towards the expected 2.0. I hope we see a return. Keith's practical frameworking was a great guide that pointed toward these abstract understandings, and I feel like the case for this open-uo proposal would be much stronger if Catalyst could be the lives experience here. If anything could be the lives experience.

The idea of allowing to easily define the behaviour of the standard UI component is interesting and will save us from having to reinvent the wheel everytime. But why discussing this kind of things on Discord? Is open the new close? Not so good naming if you ask me, it might confuse people.

Using SwiftUI I recently thought about whether HTML could need a reset with all the clutter removed. This could be it (?) LHTM light hyper text markup?