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> If HTML were truly awesome, then you would not have Wikipedia; you would have Htmlpedia.

I don't buy this. The problem with HTML is not that it isn't expressive enough or that it's too hard to use; it's that arbitrary user code can easily compromise the integrity of your website.

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I wrote the comment about Wikipedia only to illustrate that HTML, like any standard, is not perfect for every use case.

I find HTML expressive and generally easy to use. I wrote SHPAML in a way that I hope preserves the useful expressiveness of HTML, while eliminating some of the 1990s-style syntax.

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