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 "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> wrote: | Arjun Ray writes: |> More Tag Soup. They want to command the client: Do This And Then |> Do That. | Even for me, that's far too bleak. The developers I've found who've | hit HTML's limitations have generally found themselves forced to code | more elegantly, not simply pile on features. Glad to hear it, but I see no evidence of this. | [...] I find a lot of developers would prefer to clean up their HTML | in order to apply various tools to it (like CSS and scripting) IOW, in order to command Do This And Then Do That, more um effectively. | than shift completely away from the document-based approach. IMHO, the developers who think in terms of documents are a vanishingly small minority. For most of them, the word 'document' figures in their working lexicon only as the prefix on '.write()'. | You may not be fond of CSS and scripting, but the process does force | Web developers to think about what they're doing and why. Does this explain px-fontsizing fliegendreck and "javascript:" URLs? | There is a chance for developers to move from Tag Soup to [a] more | systematic approach, but it does help to provide them with reasons | and accessible toolkits. When the end result is something for a Tag Soup processor? Virtue may be its own reward, but that isn't the apppropriate banality. More like: no silk purses from sows' ears. 
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