This is another tangential thought that comes from "Thinking In Perl" rather than thinking like the rest of the world.

Given that we know the strengths and weaknesses of HTML, can YAML or POD be adapted to do what HTML currently does?

Does this sound absurd? I was thinking about it idly, because I recall that an inconvenient feature of HTML is that it's hard to build a layout. Tables have to be used. Or maybe place components precisely. Gotta use the clear pixel image. Or something. Has anybody else thought about Doing It Better than HTML?

Perl is the Swiss-Army Chainsaw of filtering languages. It processes POD. It's also a YAML target. Surely there's a synthesis there that can interpret a more refined Web Markup system?

In reply to YAML-POD to Perl to Web? by rje

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