[deltarholamda]

I get what the author is trying to say, and I certainly agree. Sometimes you simply need it to look a certain way or use an image that cannot be summarized in text in a meaningful way in order to get your point across.

All those monks slaving away doing doodles in the margins weren't just staving off carpal tunnel. There's meaning there you can't get any other way. Before Man could write, Man made art.

The other HN article about "plaintext only" I also agree with. HTML is the synthesis of the two. Sometimes I forget what a great idea and a blessing HTML is. Even if you don't have a browser that can render it, reading an HTML document isn't difficult if it isn't festooned with auto-generated nonsense.