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Le Sat, 19 May 2012 03:36:11 +0200, Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> a =
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=C3=A9crit:

> On Friday, May 18, 2012 3:35:11 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:46 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>>
>> > This is the new world order of software engineering. After 50 years=

>> > of computer science and programming languages research, the world h=
as
>> > decided it will be Javascript and HTML5.
>>
>> No. Due to opening a new market the technology (rather lack of) is
>> returning to the point where it was 20-30 years ago. Such retreats  =

>> always
>> happen when there is no pressure to improve quality or safety.
>
> Does this mean we'll be having PostScript -driven GUIs instead of this=
  =

> Frankenstein HTML5/CSS/Javascript monster? Because the way I see it PS=
  =

> has the advantage of having been designed to address the HTML5/CSS  =

> issues (i.e. PS was intended for layout, whereas HTML was not)?

Obviously it was not, and it was on purpose. That's the role of CSS, not=
  =

HTML and HTML5, which describes structures and basic semantics traits. T=
he  =

idea behind these web standards is the separation of presentation  =

(Cascading *Style* Sheet) and semantic (HyperText *Markup* Language).

> Either way, I hope HTML5 dies.

Sorry, it surely won't ;-) Too much a Holy Grail for so much people  =

all=E2=80=91over the world.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity