FTD
Languages and libraries
markup language
SHOW HN2021
17points
6comments
#1,520of 2,533 in 2021
Top 61%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
2 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Idea: 2 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Simple, single text-based markup that covers basic web page needs.
From 2 comments
The idea of a single text based markup language that meets most basic web page requirements is excellent. So many Backend developers, as well as early developers find HTML+CSS…
vvohra87 on HNI never thought HTML, CSS etc could be redesigned (let alone replaced). HTML can be so nasty when you have to add styling in the tags; it kills the point of using xml. Best we…
nilinswap on HN
Makes reusable components possible, like custom tags.
From 1 comment
The idea of a single text based markup language that meets most basic web page requirements is excellent. So many Backend developers, as well as early developers find HTML+CSS…
vvohra87 on HN
Objections
Conflates documents (markup) with multiline data; JSON and YAML are not markup languages.
From 1 comment
It looks like the P1 section, https://www.fifthtry.com/ftd/p1/ , is pretty confused on the difference between "documents" and "multiline data" HTML, XML, Markdown, RST is are all…
theamk on HN
Alternatives named
XML with XSD and XSLT
From 1 comment
FTD is XML with neater (hopefully) syntax. XML got a lot of things right, XML has XSD for rich data schema definition, Unlike JSON/YML. FTD too has first class data modelling…
amitu on HN
Markdown
From 1 comment
FTD is XML with neater (hopefully) syntax. XML got a lot of things right, XML has XSD for rich data schema definition, Unlike JSON/YML. FTD too has first class data modelling…
amitu on HN