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If I have to write "paragraph" at the start of every paragraph I'll immediately start looking for some kind of a meta markdown tool to make it easier to write.
by hirundo 6y ago
If I have to write "paragraph" at the start of every paragraph I'll immediately start looking for some kind of a meta markdown tool to make it easier to write.
- rakoo 6y agoMaybe some processor that allows you to write <p>
- lhorie 6y agoYeah! Then italics could be <i>foo</i>, etc. We could then give this variation a cool name, like "hypertext markup language".
- TeMPOraL 6y agoYeah, but then somebody would come and say, "when you write <i>foo</i>, what you really wanted to do is to emphasize", and so you'll write <em>foo</em> instead, and leave the italicizing out as an implementation detail. Implementation details still have to be implemented. Someone else might come along and figure that different documents may want to interpret "emphasis" differently, and while we're at it, why not make it composable? They may design a DSL for that, and give it a cool name too, like "cascading style sheets".
- SemiNormal 6y agoThen someone else would say "I really hate people" and add <blink>
- terinjokes 6y agoThen they can really tell the world about how they feel with <marquee>.
- TuringTest 6y agoThose are compliant HTML5 tags, right?
- int_19h 6y agoThey were never compliant, in any version of the standard.
- skulk 6y agoI used to participate in a chat room that allowed a limited subset of HTML, and one of the tags was <marquee>. I played around with this a lot and discovered that you could nest marquees and make (very) limited ASCIImations. This culminated in someone making a ASCIImation parody of Finding Nemo. Good times.
- rakoo 6y agoAI will never reach human ingeniosity
- sooheon 6y agoI didn't know what that did so I googled "marquee html", they have a nice little easter egg for it. It's been a while since I've seen anything like that from google
- theandrewbailey 6y agoThen someone else will come along and not understand it, and wonder why we don't have content, styling, and logic all in one place. He will write some script on a napkin in a coffee shop, but spill some java on it. An implementation will be made, but the spilling won't stop, not even after it reaches RAM.
- benibela 6y agoBut also allow abbreviations like <i>foo</> or <em>foo</> or <em/foo/
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- yongjik 6y agoWant some PTSD? Imagine having to write "paragraph" at the start and "/paragraph" at the end of every paragraph. From the glorious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook : <chapter xml:id="chapter_1"> <title>Chapter 1</title> <para>Hello world!</para> <para>I hope that your day is proceeding <emphasis>splendidly</emphasis>!</para> </chapter>