but in html you're mostly reading noise. To quantify: In your typical web-templates that contain little actual content you'll easily approach 50% noise. Next

but in html you're mostly reading noise. To quantify: In your typical web-templates that contain little actual content you'll easily approach 50% noise. Next time you re-arrange some HTML template, pay attention to the time you spend searching, counting and re-ordering all those closing spans and divs. That's why people like HAML - it actually saves time.