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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:44:23 +0100
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On 20.02.14 03:39, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:37:42 +0100, Georg Bauhaus
> <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>> The normal use case for HTML is when there are at least
>> two computer systems involved:
>>
>> (1)  one sending documents (->), and receiving requests (<-),
>>    ??????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????
>> (2)  one receiving documents (<-), and sending requests (->),
>> (...)
> 	Uhm... That defines HTTP.

Yes, hypertext, by design, is for being transported. An Ada
program will produce a document, and, as part of this normal
use case, will send it. Done. Whereas dispatching that involves
rendering is not part of the same Ada program.

> 	CSS is an evil trying to turn HTML into a page-layout language... If
> one really needs that much control over the document -- ship it as a PDF

Real world HTML adapts to the needs of those financing its
use. The two most important adaptations are defined by the
powers that be:

1. graphics designers, who just cannot work without a fixed
    2D canvas. (They turn everything into fliers.)

2. Big Data monetizers (Ads & Co.; The Media), who need
    Javascript attachments; Javascript functions are triggered
    by events bound to DOM elements. PDF does not deliver, by
    comparison.

Neither of them is anywhere near the requirements of template
based Text I/O, I think. But there might be some financing for
the latter.