Post #2218800
2026-05-07 07:48 UTC
@dillo@fosstodon.org
> So it would need to be reviewed if HTML/XML is a suitable format for simple parsing.
I haven't implemented a browser, yet, but my initial reaction to this is that XML comes with schemas, which would be very useful for enforcing a grammar. The tools already exist. Don't throw out the baby... etc.
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@i_dabble@merveilles.town 2026-05-07 08:01
@dillo@fosstodon.org I could even imagine that XML namespaces could come in handy to define a core grammar and allow for extendability, without changing the core every week. Maybe that's a terrible idea, and we would end up with each website coming with a list of extensions the browser needs to support. On the other hand, can't be worse than what we have now. 🤷 Could be nice if the browser would just ignore extensions it doesn't support and that then has to be considered when implementing a website. 🤔