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 (Python, JavaScript. and dare I say it - Lisp or Clojure), and have whatever web server/plugin you deploy to do the translation. If the web hosting service doesn't accommodate your preferred language, then find another web hosting service. Of course, some web content is already this way - most people who use WordPress or Blogger don't end up writing that much HTML - they use a GUI builder to customize it, and/or change its appearance with themes.
;; Gary On Mar 20, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Could anyone think > about it a bit and suggest how it'd go? JSON is the closest I can get. > > -- Owen
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