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minus-squarePhrodo_00@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoHTML is not trying to accomplish a task but specifically displaying stuff on the screen. Like a word document, or a jpeg.
minus-squareGroteStreet 🦘linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year ago HTML is not trying to accomplish a task but specifically displaying stuff on the screen. But what if my task is to display stuff on the screen?
minus-squarekakes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoThen you would be a rendering engine, built from a language that isn’t HTML.
minus-squareRain World: Slugcat Game@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoi want to display stuff on my screen, and i’m not a rendering engine, i’m a human!
minus-squareRain World: Slugcat Game@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agowell from that argument, you can’t make a compiler for a real language
HTML is not trying to accomplish a task but specifically displaying stuff on the screen. Like a word document, or a jpeg.
But what if my task is to display stuff on the screen?
Then you would be a rendering engine, built from a language that isn’t HTML.
i want to display stuff on my screen, and i’m not a rendering engine, i’m a human!
well from that argument, you can’t make a compiler for a real language