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      1. …in reply to @larsr_h
        larsr_h HTML was good enough, and nobody cared about such things as „well-formedness“ except a few romantic nerds. Namespaces were a mess that was bolted onto XML after the fact, and this too hard to grasp for people who copied stuff together.
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      larsr_h All that made XML a better choice for people like us was exactly what made it a worse choice for the majority
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    larsr_h I could argue it’s a case of “worse is better”, but I’m not even sure it is actually the worse thing that won
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