Andrei's Google Talk

[Lutger]

Walter Bright wrote:

> Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>> On 08/07/2010 01:40 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> What's odd about how pointlessly verbose it is, is it was designed in
>>> the era of modems. You'd think that tightening up the syntax would be a
>>> priority.
>> 
>> Do you really think those <p> tags and <a href> tags were choking the
>> 14.4 modems of the time? When HTML was first designed, it was a simple
>> markup language.
> 
> A typical HTML source file is about double the size it needs to be if HTML
> were designed better. A lot of sites did work hard to try to shrink their HTML
> pages so they'd load faster.
> 

For example, haml with Ruby on Rails: http://haml-lang.com/ The markup is 
readable and maps very easy to html.