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HTML? Is the main advantage of XML for understandability the labeled closing tags? Lisp has the same struggle too?
by koolala 1y ago
HTML? Is the main advantage of XML for understandability the labeled closing tags? Lisp has the same struggle too?
- imiric 1y agoTangent: the fact XHTML didn't gain traction is a mistake we've been paying off for decades. Browser engines could've been simpler; web development tools could've been more robust and powerful much earlier; we would be able to rely on XSLT and invent other ways of processing and consuming web content; we would have proper XHTML modules, instead of the half-baked Web Components we have today. Etc. Instead, we got standards built on poorly specified conventions, and we still have to rely on 3rd-party frameworks to build anything beyond a toy web site. Stricter web documents wouldn't have fixed all our problems, but they would have certainly made a big impact for the better.