A clever way to implement a htmx-like mechanism of substituting the content of a node with the response of a request.

It works like this. Have a hidden iframe whose onload callback sets the target node (specified by hash) with the iframe's body content. Then use an a element to trigger the iframe load: <a target=_the_iframe href="/req-url#target-element">.

TIL: a[target], iframe[hidden], contentWindow, contentDocument, <base target=X>

This thing amazes me when I saw it. Although I can roughly see how it may work, this still feels magical to me.

Then I realized, isn't this technique known as "inverse kinematics"?

An interesting made up story about supply chain attack on npm and javascript community.

A bunch of nice tricks to use browsers' web debugger console and console.log() faimilies.

More tricks shared in HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071700