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Is HTML a Humane Markup Language?

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by spydez • 18 years ago

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Hexstream• 18 years ago

I don't see why you couldn't support many different markup languages in a single site. For example, on a web forum I'd love to be able to write BBcode with an s-expression syntax.

So you'd have 2 <select>s: one for semantics, one for syntax. So you could have BBcode semantics with traditional syntax, BBcode semantics with s-expression syntax, and a lot of other semantics and their corresponding available syntaxes. All those representations would simply be canonicalized into one language on the server.

flupkear• 18 years ago

I never really liked those pseudo markups, but some people do so maybe the best is to use Markdown that support pseudo markup and HTML

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