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points by Fordec 10 hours ago | 0 comments

On the general premise, I agree. But I don't think that moment is today, not yet anyway. I don't think we understand the right way to approach context and memory yet or how long they should last for, never mind standardizing on an abstraction prematurely that ends up being like SOAP or SGML.

[–] andai 9 hours ago

What's better than SGML? What would XML an HTML look like if they were based on that instead?

[–] moron4hire 6 hours ago

HTML is SGML. You know that while doctype things you're supposed to out at the start of the document? That specifies the document schema of HTML at a specific version for the current SGML doc.

[–] andai 4 hours ago

Yeah, hence my question. What would HTML and XML look like if they were based on this thing that's apparently superior to SGML instead of being based on SGML?

[–] dizhn 9 hours ago

Fully agree. Any solution people think they have today is working on assumptions that are probably not correct. And things are still moving very fast.