Leon's Microblog – Posts tagged "HTML"

I feel like HTML is such a goofy language that even this many years on, it's still hard to take it seriously. It's never going to have the straight-spined dignity of C or Java or Rust, or even the respectability of another layout language like LaTeX.

Saw a post observing that one of the most astonishing upsides of HTML, a document format, being repurposed as an application user interface framework, is simply that, unlike dedicated ground-up UI frameworks, font rendering actually works.