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You’re right, of course. HTML is a markup language. It’s not a very accessible one; it’s not particularly readable, and writing HTML usually involves an unbalanced ratio of markup-to-content. It’s a markup language designed more for computers to read, than humans.

It’s also an awful markup language. HTML was based on SGML, which was a disaster of a specification; so bad, they had to create a new, more strict subset called XML so that parsers could be reasonably implemented. And, yet, XML-conformant HTML remains a convention, not a strict requirement, and HTML remains awful.

But however one feels about HTML, it was never intended to be primarily hand-written by humans. Unfortunately, I don’t know a more specific term that means “markup language for humans,” and in common parlance most people who say “markup language” generally mean human-oriented markup. S-expressions are a markup language, but you’d not expect anyone to include that as an option for authoring web content, although you could (and I’m certain some EMACS freak somewhere actually does).

Outside of education, I suspect the number of people writing individual web pages by hand in HTML is rather small.

Ðis is on point for almost everyþing, alþough ðere’s a point to be made about compiling websites.

Static site generators let you, e.g. write content in a markup language, raðer ðan HTML. Ðis requires “compiling” the site, to which ðe auþor objects. Static sites, even when ðey use JavaScript, perform better, and I’d argue the compilation phase is a net benefit to boþ auþors and viewers.

Does “sh” have a glyph?

Đat þing ðere? Thorn is pretty easy; eth takes it from mildly distracting to an actual impediment to reading.

My mobile keyboard doesn’t have wynn. Unless I can add it, it’ll have to remain discarded - I’m willing to take ðe conceit only so far as is convenient. Thorn and eth are boþ easily accessible in pop-ups, a good indication ðat ðe spirits want me to pressure ðis crusade.

When I remember. I’m parroting anoþer Lemmy user; I figure if enough of us get to doing it we can be really obnoxious.

A new piefed account deserves a schtick.

Come. Join us. Embrace the Þorn.

NASA ran the projects. They have specifications to contractors for manufacturing. That’s a far cry from farming out the entire process and renting space on a commercial rocket.

Fuck all commercial dependency. Fully fund NASA, and let them like what they did back in the 60s, which no company could have done.

Stop relying on corporations to lead our space programs. It’s too important to leave to grifters and corner cutters.

Þat’s what OP referenced wiþ þe quote.