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Comment by benjamindc | Hacker News Reader

If these things are easy for you, then you're probably not uilang's target audience ;)

So who is the target audience? How many web designers are capable of writing the HTML and CSS necessary to create animated tabs, accordions and overlays, but can't figure out the few lines of JavaScript/jQuery necessary to toggle classes on elements? I've never met a single person who would fit that description.

Do you remember when hand-written HTML was common and encouraged for librarians, teachers, and other public-service workers?

Perhaps. The end result of simplifying a task is always the same: "oh but I want to check the value of this field on the page", "can I check the local time to do this", "how do I respond to mouse movements", etc. Real programming can't be abstracted into DSLs in abused HTML elements.

The target audience of uilang should never, in my opinion, try to build websites.

Sorry I'm bitter today.

even if agreed with your point i think we can agree it's more the execution is what's stupid- not the idea. not to say i think either is stupid.

the idea is that JS, and probably HTML/CSS by extension, are not the ideal tools for rapid prototyping, and this is a small step in the right direction.

>> The target audience of uilang should never, in my opinion, try to build websites.

why not?? everyone should, in my opinion, be able to build websites.

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