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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HTML is not trying to accomplish a task but specifically displaying stuff on the screen. Like a word document, or a jpeg.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HTML is not trying to accomplish a task but specifically displaying stuff on the screen.

But what if my task is to display stuff on the screen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then you would be a rendering engine, built from a language that isn't HTML.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

well from that argument, you can't make a compiler for a real language

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

i want to display stuff on my screen, and i'm not a rendering engine, i'm a human!