Adding interactivity was not a mistake, requiring markup to reside with the text being marked up was the real disaster.
Imagine a world limited to Windows BMP images and MS-PAINT, That's how I feel about HTML and web browsers. In that world, GIMP would seem like an impossible dream, just like the Memex does in ours.
It is possible to separate out source text, annotation, and code into separate layers, and even separate sources. You should be able to take a file, and produce 5 different views of the same file without changing it, or making a copy.
Just like GIMP, if you need a flat file, that's what Export_As is for. I want a world where HTML is obsolete old junk.
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Adding interactivity was not a mistake, requiring markup to reside with the text being marked up was the real disaster.
Imagine a world limited to Windows BMP images and MS-PAINT, That's how I feel about HTML and web browsers. In that world, GIMP would seem like an impossible dream, just like the Memex does in ours.
It is possible to separate out source text, annotation, and code into separate layers, and even separate sources. You should be able to take a file, and produce 5 different views of the same file without changing it, or making a copy.
Just like GIMP, if you need a flat file, that's what Export_As is for. I want a world where HTML is obsolete old junk.