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Kids these days... We could have had XHTML, xpath, and the web as a semantic DB. I wonder if the author even knows what these things are, or what happened with
by simplecomplex 8y ago
Kids these days... We could have had XHTML, xpath, and the web as a semantic DB. I wonder if the author even knows what these things are, or what happened with the vision of a semantic machine-readable web. I rarely come across engineers who even know what XML is (no, it’s not an alternative encoding format to JSON).
It’d be great if CS courses and bootcamps would teach some basic web history.
- 2_listerine_pls 8y ago> I rarely come across engineers who even know what XML bullshit
- cyberpunk0 8y agoSecond this
- fooyc 8y agoTo be fair, you can to use XPath in HTML as well
- qwerty456127 8y ago> I rarely come across engineers who even know what XML is (no, it’s not an alternative encoding format to JSON). Why? I've been around since HTML 1.0 and used to be a die-hard strict XHTML advocate (now I'm not just because today HTML5 still is written as pretty well-formed XML usually + has more semantic tags and is more readable and more unified this way) and actually love XML as I find it more readable than JSON but how I still don't get how is XML better than JSON in any aspect other than readability (which is subjective, many people say XML is pain to read). Sure, XML provides 2 distinct ways of expressing object properties and allows unencapsulated text within an element alongside subelements but I doubt these are a good things at all. I feel like I would even prefer JSON to replace HTML itself as it could introduce more order to the chaos and make the web more machine-readable.
- quickthrower2 8y agoThe author is working with the Web, like as it is. Not an imaginary one where everyone has formatted their page in validated XHTML. This is the reality regardless of the author's age, be it 17 or 70.