[FRIAM] Santa Fe Plaza Riot

[Marcus Daniels]

A typical editor won't even expose HTML.  It could be some other graph-like document representation and most people would never know what serialization format happens to be used.    Let's talk about technology that has become an obstacle to progress:  Unix has people thinking the world should be thought of as flat bytes and not composed types.   Ooh for abstraction we get fields and lines!  Talk about impoverished.

On 6/3/20, 4:41 PM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

    Ha! No. Technology is NOT monotonic. HTML sucks. SGML sucks. ... XML?  IDK, maybe, for some things, not for everything.

    On 6/3/20 4:35 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
    > HTML provides better ways to highlight text that do not involve changing the visible glyphs.
    > HTML is everywhere.  More tech is better.   It's not 1995.  

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