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> no browser-native no-JS way to submit a form and use the response without loading the whole page again

I think a lot of badness comes out of the desire to avoid loading the whole page again. Sure, there are lots of more desktop-like webapps where that's definitely undesirable, but a whole lot of interactions are just fine as a page load, as long as the page load itself doesn't suck.

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The real problem isn’t the page load, it’s that it’s visible. If only one picture and a bit of text update, why does the whole screen have to blink?

The view transitions API addresses this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...

And seems to require JS and doesn't support (yet) cross-document transitions (i.e. anything that causes a reload)

I question whether that's a real problem in a web form. Even unsophisticated users have probably seen it more than a few times and know that it's normal.

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