Comment by simonw

It's genuinely fascinating to me how many professional web developers these days - smart people who produce good work - don't know how to build interactive features using HTML on its own (and maybe don't even know it's possible).

Being able to do things like this is really useful:

  <form action="https://simonwillison.net/search/" method="get">
    <input type="text" name="q">
    <input type="submit" value="Search">
  </form>

I've seen teams estimate a full day to add a link to a contact form because they need to refactor a bunch of React components to achieve that. I like being able to do this:

  <a href="/contact">Contact us</a>