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Correct - though as designed that's a tooling problem, not a spec problem. Consider the pre-web world: You don't have reusable components in your printer, you m
by bonaldi 5y ago
Correct - though as designed that's a tooling problem, not a spec problem. Consider the pre-web world: You don't have reusable components in your printer, you manage stylesheets and templates in your word processor.
The original assumption from TBL was there would be much richer tooling to allow everyone to compose HTML without knowing tags, but for various reasons that's not the direction Andreesen et al took Netscape. And third-party tooling (like SiteMill) end up focusing on developers and evolved into things like DreamWeaver.
Hence the mess we're in today: the world's greatest publishing platform, and it's near-impossible for non-technical users to start publishing directly to it as conceived. Good news for Wordpress and CMS vendors, but a road sadly not taken in so many other aspects