it's really quite something how much of a mess html has become
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it's really quite something how much of a mess html has become
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like say what you will about html4 (or xhtml1 for that matter), it was at least relatively orderly, and with the exception (?) of links could be described by declarative means like dtd
now it's like, there's all kinds of conditions all over the place
ii dunno, could you describe html faithfully with eg relaxng? or do you have to fudge it?
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like say what you will about html4 (or xhtml1 for that matter), it was at least relatively orderly, and with the exception (?) of links could be described by declarative means like dtd
now it's like, there's all kinds of conditions all over the place
ii dunno, could you describe html faithfully with eg relaxng? or do you have to fudge it?
@doriantaylor I have a strong memory of setting my (xhtml) personal site to be served as XML with the right headers and being pleasantly surprised when syntax errors in markup showed up as XML parser failures rather than the browser doing its normal “best guess” thing and rendering a janky page. Felt like bringing compiled language syntax discipline to the web, and at the time that seemed like progress to me.
I also think that is why xhtml ultimately lost to html 4 and 5 though; I can’t imagine trying to run a CMS or any other site heavily focused on user generated content if the whole thing has to be valid as XML at all times. I’ve also come to think not everything needs to have that level of syntax rigor, and the democratic nature of the web is (was?) one of its best qualities
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@doriantaylor I have a strong memory of setting my (xhtml) personal site to be served as XML with the right headers and being pleasantly surprised when syntax errors in markup showed up as XML parser failures rather than the browser doing its normal “best guess” thing and rendering a janky page. Felt like bringing compiled language syntax discipline to the web, and at the time that seemed like progress to me.
I also think that is why xhtml ultimately lost to html 4 and 5 though; I can’t imagine trying to run a CMS or any other site heavily focused on user generated content if the whole thing has to be valid as XML at all times. I’ve also come to think not everything needs to have that level of syntax rigor, and the democratic nature of the web is (was?) one of its best qualities
@mkornblum the current crop of html spec people (going back probably 2 decades tbh) consider the rigour of xml to be a liability; i'm half there with them but i've also seen them basically reinvent the xml wheel in the interim, and poorly
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@mkornblum the current crop of html spec people (going back probably 2 decades tbh) consider the rigour of xml to be a liability; i'm half there with them but i've also seen them basically reinvent the xml wheel in the interim, and poorly
@doriantaylor @mkornblum that's in fact one of the motivations for the creation of the WHATWG by Opera and Mozilla. Then Google took over and it went to shit.
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Using github's ci without using anything else from Github? I'm interested, where I can learn more about it?
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Nope. Not today.
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Are we again at the point where you derail the discussion, while you know perfectly well that you can continue using GitHub's CI without requiring the community to use GitHub and move development elsewhere?
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Thank you! Still a looot to do before we can touch the rankings on number of users / active users though 😅
