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There’s open as in “can make” and there’s open as in “can repurpose”. I believe the parent is talking about the latter. The great thing about HTML is that it is
by genmon 4y ago
There’s open as in “can make” and there’s open as in “can repurpose”. I believe the parent is talking about the latter. The great thing about HTML is that it is machine readable by default, and that allows for permissionless innovation like search engines. You wouldn’t get Google in a world where everything was rendered to a bitmap, standards-based drawing API or not.
- rvense 4y agoThat's shifting the goal posts quite significantly. HTML is machine-readable because it's less powerful than a drawing API. There's a lot of applications that can't be created with plain HTML.
- MrTortoise 4y agohtml isnt a programming language though is it apples and pairs
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