Walter Bright wrote: > Jeff Nowakowski wrote: >> 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. > > A typical HTML source file is about double the size it needs to be if HTML > were designed better. A lot of sites did work hard to try to shrink their HTML > pages so they'd load faster. >
For example, haml with Ruby on Rails: http://haml-lang.com/ The markup is readable and maps very easy to html.