From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.teledanmark.no!uninett.no!ntnu.no!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Generating Indented HTML Date: 02 Nov 2002 12:40:14 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3245229614678052@naggum.no> References: <18e1cdb3.0211011914.2983f299@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1036240815 8468 129.240.65.211 (2 Nov 2002 12:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Nov 2002 12:40:15 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:45495 * Pratibha | When generating HTML, do you bother to indent at all? No. I usually produce one long line, and I use &# a lot to avoid the moronic parser of the moronic syntax of the moronic language. Producing nice-looking HTML for people is like optimizing PostScript files for legibility -- an utter waste of time. | It seems that doing so would it make it more | readable/editable/debuggable. Do yourself a favor and read/edit/debug in a readable/editable/debuggable language. HTML is not suitable for human consumption. Heck, it is not even suitable for machine consumption. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.