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Re:Portable Text – JSON rich text specification for content ... by funkaster on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:47PM (#18612362)
why is this not XML? it doesn't make any sense at all. They are trying to force a schema on json, when it would be hundred more times easier (and probably with better tooling) than forcing json for this.
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Re:Portable Text – JSON rich text specification for content ... by cryptonaut on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @05:43PM (#18613470)
I'm really struggling to understand that as well. Can't wait until this comes full circle and someone decides to write a "simplified" version that allows you to write some variant of <foo>bar</foo> that gets compiled into a JSON string. Bonus points for the huge waste of bytes in the JSON representation!
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Re:Portable Text – JSON rich text specification for content ... by danellis on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @05:12PM (#18613187)
Marking up text using a markup language? It'll never catch on! (Actually, it probably won't, because XML is "uncool" now.)
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