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Programming languages, perhaps. HTML not a programming language, it’s markup. The best comparison I can think of is XML: it does have namespacing and in my expe
by afavour 3y ago
Programming languages, perhaps. HTML not a programming language, it’s markup. The best comparison I can think of is XML: it does have namespacing and in my experience it’s more annoying than not having it.
- eyelidlessness 2y agoIt’s really only annoying because it has exceedingly fussy semantics. And even then, it usually fades into background noise unless you’re using the exceedingly fussy semantics with minimal constraints. If you generally tend to use the same N set of namespaces and always use the same prefixes with them, it’s mostly just fine after you copypasta some boilerplate (or have tools do the boilerplate for you). (Yeah I work with XML day to day, yeah I might have some amount of Stockholm Syndrome associated with that.)