During development when referring to HTML (and perhaps CSS) with a client do you use the term "code" or the more pedantically correct, though perhaps less recognised, term "markup" ?
I'm asking as I often wonder which one the client grasps first.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
code:
<software> Instructions for a computer in some programming
language, often machine language. The word "code" is often
used to distinguish instructions from data (e.g. "The code
is marked 'read-only'") whereas "software" is used in
contrast with "hardware" and may consist of more than just
code.markup
<text> In computerised document preparation, a method of
adding information to the text indicating the logical
components of a document, or instructions for layout of the
text on the page or other information which can be interpreted
by some automatic system. For example, the source of this dictionary is marked up by
enclosing cross-references in curly braces which are
significant to the World-Wide Web server software.Nick
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