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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the alternative? Or an alternative I guess I should say. I agree though, I wish folks would use HTML for all documents. Like why the hell am I downloading a PDF of a thing I'm never printing? (PDFs are still acceptable for printing though.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think there's anything wrong with using HTML/XML-ish format for describing a UI (although having a standardized presentation format that all "viewers/browsers" follow exactly the same way would be nice), I'm just sad that websites have become described as UIs rather than as well-structured documents.