We're fighting over the wrong wire: WebSockets vs SSE for HTML over the wire

Yesterday I published HTML over WebSockets . A reader from the Datastar community, who goes by drk, replied with HTML over the wire , live demo included. Nicely done. He argues that to ship HTML, SSE + POST over HTTP/2 beats WebSockets, and backs it with a few technical points. We actually agree on almost everything: SPAs carry too much complexity, and hypermedia is the way out. We disagree on the…