> This feels incredibly verbose and error prone, not to mention confusing and hard to grok. That looks a lot less verbose, error-prone, confusing & hard-to-gro

> This feels incredibly verbose and error prone, not to mention confusing and hard to grok. That looks a lot less verbose, error-prone, confusing & hard-to-grok than actual HTML, don't you think? Or do you actually prefer the HTML below? <form id="logform" class="nomargin"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse"> <tr><td colspan="2">username:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><input id="loguser" class="txt" name="user" type="text" size="15"/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">password:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><input id="logpass" class="txt" name="pass" type="password" size="15"/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><input id="logmem" type="checkbox" name="mem"/>remember me</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><span id="logerror" class="error"/></td></tr> <tr><td><input id="logbtn" class="btn" type="submit" value="Login" onclick="login(); return false"/></td> <td><input class="btn" type="submit" value="Register" onclick="register(); return false"/></td> </tr> <tr><td nowrap="true" colspan="2" align="center" class="little"><a href="/password">what's my password?</a></td></tr> </table> </form> For my money, the S-expression HTML is much easier to read & understand.