I don't do much web development, but it seems to me that it would be better to
treat HTML/CSS (and maybe even JavaScript) as the assembly language of the web.
Let the browser digest it, humans shouldn't have to look at that cruft. Write
your web content in whatever you're comfortable with
CSS is an extension of HTML and is confined to HTML element attributes.
JSON is a generic data interchange format (DIF)
LESS and SASS are preprocessors that programmatically generate 'static'
CSS but PHP, etc. can do that too if you care to write it.
Perhaps to answer your question they were
Well, here's the puzzler for me: Why is CSS an entirely different syntax
than JSON or even HTML?
Fail! I guess Sass/Less may get close, as well as CoffeeKup
http://coffeekup.org/ which just sez: WTF, lets just mash them all up, no
prob.
I would like a markdown equivalent to CSS. Seriously.
Josh sed:
Also surprised Owen hasn't brought Markdown into the mix here. Seems like the
perfect ASCII/monospace style for meaningful formatting.
The nice thing about standards is we have so many to choose from! -
Andy Tanenbaum ( http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum )
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