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<!DOCTYPE html>

<html

        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

        xmlns:ns1="mynamespace"

        xmlns:ns2="yournamespace"

<body>

<CustomElement>Hello</CustomElement><!-- Custom element in the XHTML namespace -->

<ns1:CustomElement>Hello</ns1:CustomElement>

<ns2:CustomElement>Hello</ns2:CustomElement>

<style type="text/css">

    @namespace ns1 "mynamespace";

    @namespace ns2 "yournamespace";

    CustomElement {

        color:green;

    }

    ns1|CustomElement {

        color:red;

    }

    ns2|CustomElement {

        color:blue;

    }

</body>

</html>

I don't want it to be this way, but HTML has nothing approaching even one tenth the ambition of XSLT and XForms.

If HTML were proposed today, you would be laughed out of the room.

If the Covid lockdowns taught us anything, its that a colossal number of people would happily subject tens of thousands of people to easily preventable deaths if it meant they could get Applebees for dinner. Besides that, huge numbers of people join the military precisely because they value a Muslim foreigners life as being worth less than a joke degree from some no name college.

So long as there is a bare minimum amount of indirection, they happily do it.

The answer to this question is always "somewhere". Just because I can't proclaim an exact number of trees that constitute a forest doesn't mean the concept doesn't exist.

I for one cannot wait for a future where grandparents get targeted ads showing their grandchildren, urging them to buy some product or service so their loved ones have something to remember them by...

How though? If questions about style or substance can be answered with "because the AI did it, its just some stochastic output from the model" I don't see how that allows for expression between humans.

A blanket ban is the way to go on this, people trying to muddy the waters professing they just have nuanced opinions know what they are doing... it's only a horse armour pack, it doesn't affect gameplay, you don't have to use it, you won't notice if it's not there...

Block ads always.

You should be able to write

<div color="red" font-weight="bold"/>

Instead of

<div style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"/>

Really makes you think.

The only thing worse than being invited to a lot of meetings is not being invited to those meetings.

There is nothing like in the modern web stack, such a pity.

How much of modern software practices would exist today if the senior engineer needed to sign off on a project?

All the transformed are maintained by non-developers, business analysts mainly. Because the language is so simple we don't need to give them much training, just get IntelliJ installed on their machine, show them a few samples and let them work away.

We couldn't have managed with anything else.

It's even worse than that, actually, because all of the things we've built aren't just not doing what we want, they're holding developers back. People build their applications on frameworks that _abstract out_ all the APIs we build for browsers, and _even with those frameworks_ developers are hamstrung by weird limitations of the web."

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696#34622514

I find it so weird that browser devs can point to the existence of stuff like React and not feel embarrassed.

I wonder if they'll be able to successfully avoid the mistake of financializing everything.

The competition will find the most profitable process, not the one that serves customers best necessarily.

The biggest change the iPhone users are going to see an increase in spyware. They'll also notice in a few years a bunch of websites go Chrome only.