Comment by elliottinvent

> all it does is do simple things by adding attributes to html elements

It’s extending html to make the most of http by adding some simple attributes.

Like all great things - the building blocks are simple, but the possibilities of what you can build with them is vast.

I think this is really well dealt with in the “opportunities” to extend html in this chapter of the Hypermedia Systems book: https://hypermedia.systems/extending-html-as-hypermedia/