@jimwebber @distobj @dckc They do if they consume perfectly good Web sites (or something very similar). Mostly they don’t.
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@stilkov @jimwebber @distobj @dckc I don't believe that rendering HTML is a prerequisite for being a good web citizen.
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@darrel_miller @jimwebber @distobj @dckc I agree, but the more conceptually similar to HTML your format is, the more "of the Web" it will be
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@stilkov Agreed. However, HTML is optimal for presenting text based information. For rich data interaction and capture it is suboptimal.
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@darrel_miller Most definitely suboptimal. Yet proven, mature, supported, standardized, often done anyway …
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@stilkov Polyfilla is proven, mature and supported, but you don't build houses out of it. ;-)
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@darrel_miller True. I just can’t help noticing that people keen adding more and more HTML features to JSON-based formats.
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@stilkov That's because many devs don't think of HTML as having semantics, just a container. So ends up having no advantages over JSON.
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@darrel_miller Even worse, most devs think it’s just presentation, not information at all
Sep 24, 2014 · 1:08 PM UTC
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