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It made sense coming from SGML where you're mostly reading and writing text with an occasional bit of markup. Now it seems some people don't even know that text
by prodigal_erik 10y ago
It made sense coming from SGML where you're mostly reading and writing text with an occasional bit of markup. Now it seems some people don't even know that text can appear on a page without first being munged in using the DOM.
- peller 10y agoInteresting, did not know that bit of history. Thanks! For the curious: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html
- tehwalrus 10y agoSomething something... Markdown...
- tannhaeuser 10y agoAllow me to plug my project here to resurrect SGML in all its glory. Just two days ago, my paper for parsing HTML5.1 in its entirety using SGML [1] has been accepted for the XML Prague conference, if anyone is interested. [1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html