On 2010-08-08 01:02, Lutger wrote:
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.
haml is a great language but it is converted to html so there is no
space saving.
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/Jacob Carlborg
