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> HTML is a _markup language_ It might have been designed as a language for web based documents. Though this is not what the web is used for today, consumers w
by askmike 12y ago
> HTML is a _markup language_
It might have been designed as a language for web based documents. Though this is not what the web is used for today, consumers want applications not documents. And we are already hacking away on top of those documents to give them that (despite the web not being intended as such).
- dghf 12y ago> It might have been designed as a language for web based documents. Though this is not what the web is used for today, consumers want applications not documents. They want applications and documents, or I do anyway. I spend more of my time online reading stuff than using GMail or whatever.
- kenko 12y agoConsumers are given applications not documents.