Post #1731721

@mwk I had to deal with incompatible word processor file formats in college, which meant when a word processor went off the market, the documents could no longer be read. And then I read about the SGML project, to make lightweight markup that was device independent, because this was a huge problem for government records. It had an exciting spinoff, HTML. A few years later, I was seeing "How to" guides on designing web sites that were all about how to subvert the design intention of HTML, and force web pages to be rendered as the designer intended, and then how you could design "entrance and exit tunnels" and otherwise control the way the user interacted with your website. It made me angry and it still does.