> HTML won't win anything, first and foremost because it is not fighting anything. And HTML is neither elastic or inelastic. Calling HTML elastic is like callin

> HTML won't win anything, first and foremost because it is not fighting anything. And HTML is neither elastic or inelastic. Calling HTML elastic is like calling an idea "green and wet". HTML is for marking up structure of the document (I am ignoring a couple of presentational attributes in HTML, but they should be ignored). CSS tells the browser is something is elastic or not. I think everybody here understands that, and the parent was using it as a shorthand for "the set of technologies commonly used in hypertext documents on the Web." It is not productive to issue a correction every time you encounter synecdoche.