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Neat but what was wrong with HTML again?
by tobyhinloopen 9y ago
Neat but what was wrong with HTML again?
- lgm_ 9y agoThat's indeed a valid question. I think it's quite a bit simpler than HTML, albeit not by a huge factor. I think that that makes a difference, as the relative success of Markdown shows. But I agree I might be wrong, we'll see.
- pdonis 9y ago> what was wrong with HTML again? That it's a lot harder to correctly type HTML than it is to express a basic page layout in this new form. In other words, on this view HTML is not source code, it's object code, and should be produced by a program, not by humans. I would agree with that.
- zokier 9y agoIt is telling that the generated HTML for the example document ends up being almost 2x the size of the input, in terms of markup overhead the generated HTML is almost 3x worse than this TextMock (by a very crude estimate).