Comment by OJFord
4 hours ago
Templated though, not manually writing it out for every blog post say. I think GP means it just has more friction as a writing format than markdown for example.
4 hours ago
Templated though, not manually writing it out for every blog post say. I think GP means it just has more friction as a writing format than markdown for example.
No, literally manually typing out HTML tags and everything. Many of us did it so much things like Emmet (https://emmet.io/) were invented and used so we could hammer out full HTML documents even faster.
Even after React became popular, people are still manually typing out HTML elements, although they call it "JSX" instead, but in reality it's just HTML.
My first blog on the internet literally was a bunch of .html files, where my post "template" was the first post copy-pasted when you wanted to make a new post. Changing the design involved changing the same thing across all files.
Basic HTML really isn’t a big step up from Markdown though, and no one was complaining about that. In some instances it’s simpler even. I often forget the exact syntax for a table in Markdown, by comparison <table>, <tr> and <td> are easy to remember. All of the major parts of Markdown are pretty easy, <h1>, <strong>, etc etc. It was written with human authorship in mind.
Typing out <p> for every paragraph is annoying, for sure. But a converter that switches out \r\n\r\n for a new paragraph would be a reasonable middle ground IMO.
>Templated though, not manually writing it out for every blog post say.
Both. We manually run HTML just fine back in the day.
Oh my sweet summer child…
Well if you're going to be like that you may as well say something about assembly, butterflies, and what the hell's a web log anyway, spiders and beavers have nothing to do with one another.
'we have been authoring' is present perfect continuous. Going forwards, and for at least the last two 'decades', HTML blog posts can use CMSs.
That incredibly condescending phrase should be banned from HN.
It fits perfectly.