Show HN: A slightly quicker way to write HTML

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6 points·MattBearman··9 comments

This has very little benefit for what it does.

Might as well just use Zencoding and get all the other benefits: http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/

I'll agree what I've created doesn't have much benefit :) but it does allow me to create HTML the way I'd always wanted, and I thought I'd share it in case someone else likes it too.

That Zencoding looks quite interesting, the main problem I can see is that to work in Zencode you have to be using a compatible editor (not always an option) where as QuickTag can be edited anywhere as it's interpreted on the server.

Cool hack; but if these kinds of things bother you, consider using a more powerful text editor.

If you want to write neat PHP templates, Facebook's XHP is the way to go.

And if you want to write neat Python templates, I hacked together https://github.com/candu/xhpy a while back ;)

One could always try Haml.

Yeah I looked into that a while back, but to be honest I wasn't looking for a re-invented wheel, plus haml is a bit to reliant on white-space and tab indenting for my liking.

I made this to be more of a slight improvement on HTML as opposed to a whole new way of marking up sites.

I hated the indention specific rules until I realized how productive never missing a tag is.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with what you're doing, but should you be in a situation where you need to write copious amounts of markup, Haml makes for an easier workflow to adopt and share with other developers.

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