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How about 3 fonts (serif, sans, and fixed) and color instead of monochrome? You're too quick to compromise :-) Vector graphics would be adequate and could dis
by civility 7y ago
How about 3 fonts (serif, sans, and fixed) and color instead of monochrome? You're too quick to compromise :-)
Vector graphics would be adequate and could discourage huge binary dumps in the code, but you know someone would try to jam a photograph in there by inserting a square per pixel, and I can't really blame them. Postscript could work, but if you picked something explicitly line oriented it would cause less confusion in revision control.
- dbcurtis 7y ago> How about 3 fonts (serif, sans, and fixed) and color instead of monochrome? You're too quick to compromise :-) Minimal Viable Picture :) > Postscript could work, but if you picked something explicitly line oriented it would cause less confusion in revision control. Agreed. But Postscript has a lot of existing unencumbered infrastructure code littering the net. With a new syntax, you need to overcome an activation energy problem. You would have to make sure that rendering and editing code existed that could be munged into a plug-in for everybody's favorite IDE. EMACS mode, anyone? Also, maybe an independent tool that ran in a local web browser (not uploading code to random servers) would be a way to jump start things.