Andrei's Google Talk

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-08-08 01:02, Lutger wrote:
> 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.

haml is a great language but it is converted to html so there is no 
space saving.


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/Jacob Carlborg