[HN Gopher] What color is your markup?
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What color is your markup?
Author : ctrlmeta
Score : 8 points
Date : 2022-10-04 10:38 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (t-ravis.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (t-ravis.com)
| taylorbuley wrote:
| Great content and, ironically, I couldn't quite make it through
| due to readability fatigue of knockout white text on black
| background.
| lioeters wrote:
| They describe three types of markup.
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| Seems kinda arbitrary, but a curious line of thought - I enjoyed
| the article. It made me imagine a new kind of hypertext, an
| evolution of HTML that unifies all these realms and more as a
| universal templating language. One can dream!
|
| > Red markup describes how to present something. One way to spot
| presentational markup is that it usually doesn't make sense if
| you imagine changing from one media to another (if it's a
| print/web document, imagine translating it into an audio
| recording).
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| > Yellow markup describes the structure of the document itself.
| To spot structural markup, replace the content (or compare
| multiple documents in the same format) and see what labels are
| stable. You can also imagine porting the content to another
| format (article, book, slide show, and so on) and consider what
| would break.
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| > Blue markup describes the ontology of things that appear in the
| content--it names and categorizes them.
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