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HTML is not trying to accomplish a task but specifically displaying stuff on the screen. Like a word document, or a jpeg.

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HTML is not trying to accomplish a task but specifically displaying stuff on the screen.

But what if my task is to display stuff on the screen?

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Then you would be a rendering engine, built from a language that isn’t HTML.

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well from that argument, you can’t make a compiler for a real language

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i want to display stuff on my screen, and i’m not a rendering engine, i’m a human!

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