/prog/ - S-expression HTML as Standard

Name: Anonymous 2013-09-17 13:25

Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to use opening and closing tags as DA STANDARD for SHITML? Are the people at W3 dumb?

For those who don't know what I'm talking about,
look how ugly and unnecessarily long HTML is.

<html>
<head>MY WEBSITE</head>
<title>MY WEBSITE</title>
<body>
<p>THIS KIND OF MARKUP IS <b><i><u>SHIT QUALITY</u></i></b></p>
</body>
</html>

But compared to the S-expressions

(html   (head "MY WEBSITE")
        (title "MY WEBSITE")
        (body (p "THIS MARKUP IS" (b.i.u "SATORI QUALITY"))))

It looks far cleaner and makes your eyes feel right at home. It's easier to parse and won't take up as a few kilobytes / megabytes (depending on the page) less Internet bandwidth. Sure it has a lot of parenthesis but it's more attractive than the repeating shitstorm of </tags>.

I know there are a lot of implementations to this but there should be one STANDARD to rule them all. The next version of HTML in the standard should be something like this.

Name: Anonymous 2015-11-03 5:20

>>67
And my point is that the web became what it is because people could easily make complete pages in fucking garbage like Notepad (or even worse, directly in an HTML form, which come to think of it was what I really did as a kid), which was usually all they had available to them. If you had to find and install anything (which almost certainly involved spending upwards of $100 in those days) and spend more time learning how to format the sexps on top of the document markup already blowing your neophyte mind, it wasn't going to happen for 99% of user/creators.

S-expression HTML as Standard

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