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Replying to @larsr_h
XML namespaces were a bad idea, and trying to cast HTML into XML turned out to be a bad idea, too. Trust me, I was there when it happened
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HTML was good enough, and nobody cared about such things as „well-formedness“ except a few romantic nerds. Namespaces were a mess that was bolted onto XML after the fact, and this too hard to grasp for people who copied stuff together.
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All that made XML a better choice for people like us was exactly what made it a worse choice for the majority
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Replying to @stilkov @larsr_h
I could argue it’s a case of “worse is better”, but I’m not even sure it is actually the worse thing that won

Jun 28, 2020 · 5:23 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @larsr_h
Definitely not. When "well formed" means "harder to read", you have a problem. The cognitive load is so great with this stuff, that another layer has to have a big payoff.