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> HTML is a _markup language_, it's ridiculous to use it as anything but a semantic language. So which is it? A semantic language or a markup (syntax) language
by thomasahle 12y ago
> HTML is a _markup language_, it's ridiculous to use it as anything but a semantic language.
So which is it? A semantic language or a markup (syntax) language?
Why does it have to stay that way? (Even if the proposal is a bad one.)
- pg_is_a_butt 12y agoHTML was adopted BECAUSE it was that way. bastardizing it BECAUSE it is so wildly adopted is retarded. you really don't detect any sarcasm at all? are you a moron or an idiot? which is it?
- virmundi 12y agoIt should stay close to what it is because it's fairly good at its job. To make it more than that would be to generalize it away from its job into some new job. This violates single responsibility. We've already learned our lesson with that and HTML; thus was born CSS. Making a web standard for single page apps doesn't really seem necessary. Applications are by their nature different than web sites. A web site is a collection of content displayed largely as pages that are designated by a URI. An application is an abstraction over the page model that minimizes the transparent page/resource model with an opaque process flow model. HTML, as it stands, can be the V in MVC in either. Making it take on the M or C gains us little and stands to lose us much.