In HTML and the Web I Trust - And LaTeX is dead | /en/2018/07/in-html-i-trust/

yihui 2022-12-17 04:37:47

In HTML and the Web I Trust - And LaTeX is dead

https://yihui.org/en/2018/07/in-html-i-trust/

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giscus-bot 2022-12-17 04:37:47

Guest *Huaixing Su* @ 2019-01-15 17:36:16 originally posted:

long live HTML!
I believe html+css+JavaScript will dominate all platforms in many fields. It's even more accessible than office since we only need a browser.
As you say, html begin to influence latex. And there will be more and more in the near future. For instance, in back-end web development, many developers begin learning node.js. Albeit JavaScript is slow(there are already some ways to solve this problem as using WebAssembly), but it links many fields and shortens learning curve. Tons of friendly tools offer opportunities to achieve their goals using html technique with little platform limitation like slides etc.

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 04:37:50

Guest *Ragef33* @ 2019-01-17 22:39:41 originally posted:

Personally, I feel Javascript should be deprecated entirely, in favor of HTML+CSS, with some WASM on the side. In addition to JS being poorly designed from the onset, pretty much all UI uses can be accomplished with pure HTML+CSS

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 04:37:48

Guest *Noah Goldman* @ 2021-06-12 04:32:39 originally posted:

LaTeX is for printed documents. HTML is for Web content. They are not for the same purpose.

yihui 2022-12-17 04:37:51

They were not, but HTML has been catching up. I'm not sure if you have read the article "LaTeX is dead" mentioned in my post. In 2019 I started working on an R package named pagedown based on paged.js: https://github.com/rstudio/pagedown The goal of paged.js is exactly for printed (HTML) documents.

Originally posted on 2021-06-12 04:40:42

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 04:37:49

Guest *Loris* @ 2021-07-28 23:28:22 originally posted:

I've only recently started using HTML5 properly (paying attention to the media, making proper use of tags and so on) and it immediately gave me the feeling that it comes closest to what LaTeX aspired to.
You can change a CSS without making any changes to the HTML text to get any layout you want. From a blog post to a pdf-style page.

I'm only sorry that a "css exchange" culture has not formed and rather that frameworks are used (which in my opinion ruin the relationship that should exist between html and css, html, for my idea, shouldn't never be touched with the purpose of making cosmetic changes.).

Sorry for the English, I use Google Translate.