alt Hacker NewsForm a design team to reduce the amount of primitives in html such that I can do everything that html + css does but with the minimum amount of primitives.
Form a design team to reduce the amount of primitives in html such that I can do everything that html + css does but with the minimum amount of primitives.
Something tells me with that approach you'd get emergent complexity that different people handle in a different manner, eventually leading to strong incentive to add new, higher level primitives. That's one of driving forces behind current state of HTML and JS and why JQuery and TABLE layouts went out of fashion. Sounds like a people thing, not a technical one.