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No? That has always been a uniquely unreadable language with weird, arbitrary choices. And on no planet is it human readable without parsing.
by Tadpole9181 7mo ago
No? That has always been a uniquely unreadable language with weird, arbitrary choices.
And on no planet is it human readable without parsing.
- krapp 7mo agoOn this planet, humans have read HTML without parsing for years. People building their first websites without any significant technical knowledge stole HTML by reading the source of other sites and edited it by hand.
- Tadpole9181 7mo agoOh, please. Don't insult everyone here by pretending you actually believe HTML is a human readable format like markdown. It was never designed for that and has never claimed that. What a rediculous thing to even say.
- krapp 7mo agoIt is. Humans do read it, and have read it. Like any language it's just a matter of familiarity. HTML was designed for humans to read and write long before Claude or compiling everything from typescript or whatever, when websites were all written by hand. In text editors. Even if you were using PHP and templates or CGI you wrote that shit by hand, which meant you had to be able to read it and understand it. Even if you were using Dreamweaver, you had to know how to read and write HTML at some point. WYSIWYG only gets you so far. Is HTML more difficult to read than Markdown? Sure. It is impossible? Not even remotely. Teenagers did it putting together their Geocities websites. You can be as snarky as you like, but facts are facts.
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- ang_cire 7mo agoI'm confused. Are you saying you cannot read an HTML file?
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- AlienRobot 7mo agoYou must be kidding. If you can read BBCode you can read HTML.
- MrVandemar 7mo agoThat is an unjustified over-generalisation. HTML markup is pretty readable (except when it becomes soup) and I read and write raw HTML documents all the time. I like it better than markdown. It's even more readable in a code editor that distiguishes tags from content.
- NetMageSCW 7mo agoAsk your grandmother to do the same.
- MrVandemar 6mo agoThey're dead for more than 20 years. Both of them.
- noisem4ker 7mo agoI don't think they were appreciating that HTML could be read unrendered. I think they meant that it was up to the browser to render HTML with sensible but unspecified or otherwise user-specified styling (the browser is supposed to be a "user agent", remember?) before web designers started aiming for pixel-perfect control through CSS.