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Yes yes, sperate content and markup/style. But you can already do this with HTML?

The only advantage I see is that you can actually support markdown like you do in your page, since it's less verbose than HTML-tags and doesn't make the text unreadable if you read it as plain text.

But with HTML5 you can introduce arbitrary tag names to pretty much get the same with an XML-like structure instead of json. Just use <subtitle> <what> <description> and supply CSS for it. If you want to consume it with something else, swap out the JSON parser for an XML one, navigate to the body tag and from there on it's the same thing.

I mean it's a cool trick you came up with, but it doesn't seem worth the effort, and relying on quirks mode seems brittle.




a huge advantage is that you could begin webdesign anew without all the baggage from old html standards


I would love an internet that provides content as JSON in a consistent format. No longer are we restricted to the often awful UI and UX choices and unnecessary stylistic overhauls that make everything more difficult to access. No more pop up banners. No scroll jacking. It sounds like bliss.


This is the exact motivation of the project. One of the next steps is to provide a global user preference to signal the render. One step at a time.




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