I think that ignores why HTML is such a popular language it is today - it's
easy to author in without any complex or expensive tools. My favorite HTML
editor is still Emacs, even without running html-mode.el. The decision to
make HTML more complex based on the concept that "nobody should ever have to
write in it" should be made very carefully, and I hope it would be backed up
by good public-domain editing tools. Now, given that, I totally see a need
for a tools that allows user to create a table or a mathematical equation
WYSIWYG-ish and export that to HTML to import into another HTML document they
are working on, but we should avoid making HTML as a whole a difficult
language to do by hand, lest it digress into something like PostScript.
Brian
p.s. - anyone know if Microsoft's hinted-at "HTMLPlus" is really our HTML
3.0, or their own take at "extending" the language?
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