On 08/07/2010 01:40 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
What's odd about how pointlessly verbose it is, is it was designed in the era of modems. You'd think that tightening up the syntax would be a priority.
Do you really think those <p> tags and <a href> tags were choking the 14.4 modems of the time? When HTML was first designed, it was a simple markup language.
The real bandwidth killers were when people put pictures (*gasp*) in their HTML pages. It got really annoying when people decided to use image maps for navigation, which meant you couldn't browse with pictures turned off.
Ah, good times.
