Comment by gojomo

I understand tradeoffs & 'technical reasons'. But, a web framework that makes specifying tiny useful HTML edits noticeably harder in code than similar changes would be in plain-text strikes me as defective. That's especially true for a broadly-useful 'global attribute' – supported on all HTML elements – like TITLE.

Looking at the precedents in code near what you've linked, for how possibly-arbitrary STYLE and CLASS and COLSPAN and CELLPADDING and WIDTH attributes are set, it's hard to see why it shouldn't be as easy as something like:

  ; (tr (td bgcolor black vspace 5 title "RIP Name (YYYY-YYYY)"))

Of course, it might not yet be that easy.

But if that's hard to support, with a couple low-risk broadly-beneficial lines elsewhere, then rumors of Arc's concise expressive power seem exaggerated.