Feels like a missed opportunity that the online version of the book isnt a demo of hypermedia in itself? Maybe a serious student of htmx could (as a learning exercise) transcribe the book from asciidoc into htmx? :-)
Besides technical merit [1] in this era of tech hypes, manias and virality it helps to engineer some gee-wow moments... 2 cents.
[1] (that htmx and friends definitely have, reminding us once again that "any fool can make something complicated but it takes a genius to make it simple")
When I look into the website source of the book I just see static HTML and CSS as well as a few media queries. Why would you want to use htmx to serve a completely static website?
Because many usage examples could be "live" as you go through the document learning about htmx functionality. Seeing is believing. The very same htmx-enhanced html pages deployed statically would (presumably) fall back to something still readable.
Ofcourse there might be valid reasons to choose to deploy statically using adoc (reusing for pdf, minimal maintenance etc.) but my point is about maximizing the impact.
Besides technical merit [1] in this era of tech hypes, manias and virality it helps to engineer some gee-wow moments... 2 cents.
[1] (that htmx and friends definitely have, reminding us once again that "any fool can make something complicated but it takes a genius to make it simple")