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The promise of "no code" has been around for as long as there has been... code. But this article has it backwards IMHO; HTML owes its incredible success to the
by bambax 5y ago
The promise of "no code" has been around for as long as there has been... code.
But this article has it backwards IMHO; HTML owes its incredible success to the fact that it is made up of readable and easy to access code.
If web pages had been produced by super refined, magic and "intelligent" authoring tools that output closed binaries, then they would have gone the way of the CD-Rom. Remember Front Page? Or all the other tools that were supposedly capable of creating HTML but produced unmaintainable garbage full of CDATA sections.
The beauty of HTML is that anyone can understand it and tinker with it.
I'll admit that writing HTML sucks a little. But much less than trying to make a webpage using MS Word.
- dheera 5y agoAgreed. In fact I detest Markdown, and use a subset of HTML for all of my notes. It's much more syntactically consistent and easier to read. I know <b> means bold and I don't have to memorize how many asterisks correspond to bold vs. italic vs. underline. It's also so much easier to just slap a stylesheet on .html files and they can be opened up as-is, beautifully presented, in a web browser, without any need of a rendering step.