On 24 May 2013 11:03, Sam Watkins <s...@nipl.net> wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:44:13PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: >> HTML started out as SGML, which is even less sane than XML. > > It's a lot more sane than binary word / wordperfect documents and such. > What do you suggest is better than HTML? troff? TeX? docbook? markdown? > And what should replace HTTP? 9p? ftp? gopher?
If you compare to binary formats as a starter, you're gonna have a bad time (for the record, I think newer word versions use DEFLATE'd zips containing XML instead... shudder. > There are all sorts of bogosities with HTTP and HTML, but it's possible > to write nice simple clean well-formed HTML, and send nice simple clean > HTTP requests, ignoring most of the suckful bits. The point is that you shouldn't *have* to consciously ignore or tolerate them. We can also argue that if you are ignorant of how it works, UPnP is fantastic. That doesn't make it so.
