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This has a really interesting point, that's being overwhelmed with weird color stuff that I frankly don't understand at all. The point is about a marked-up doc
by samatman 4y ago
This has a really interesting point, that's being overwhelmed with weird color stuff that I frankly don't understand at all.
The point is about a marked-up document's concept of 'itself as a document', and how this rarely matches to an HTML document, which is a container for the document as well as a bunch of not-document things (navigation header) and para-document things (section sidebar, preview embeds and popups).
I think all of the color stuff is meant to illustrate (or should I say, ink) the bad design revealed by this disparity. I didn't actually get it, but I've always been a <b>bold</b> sort of person, <strong>strong</strong> just seems like another way to say the same thing, which caught on as a fad.
But HTML having markup for documents inside of documents? Strikes me as a good idea. What I don't know is if that's blue or chartreuse.
- throwamon 4y agoThe "color stuff" is most certainly a reference to this: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/ https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
- memco 4y agoBoth of which may or may not have some connection to the book What Color is Your Parachute: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Color_Is_Your_Parachute%3F https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Color_Is_Your_Parachute....
- collegeburner 4y agongl i thought it was an andrew tate joke for a hot second there, took me a little longer to remember the what color are your bits post.