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> At PayPal we banned html and made everyone write XML That's gross when XML with its pointless verboseness is actually just a "canonical" SGML subset without
by tannhaeuser 2y ago
> At PayPal we banned html and made everyone write XML
That's gross when XML with its pointless verboseness is actually just a "canonical" SGML subset without tag omission and other short forms, intended for delivery to browsers, while SGML proper has all the authoring features. Goes to show how clueless and prone to koolaid sellers developers were and still are (cf crypto, LLMs).
- cranberryturkey 2y agothe idea was you ask 10 web devs how to code a <button>Save</button> you'd get 10 different answers, so we had a <Button>Save</Button> xml tag that generated them all the same. there was only one way to create a button now. It worked until people started adding all these options to to <Button> template that it became garbage again.