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by bct 4587 days ago
> If you're lucky it will be 'article'. But you probably won't be.

This situation can be improved (and is being improved). If we treat HTML as nothing but a display language, then it will become one - and if that's what you want, then you should just be using PDF, PNG or SWF.

> And it will remain this way because HTML isn't intended the way you seem to think it is.

I guess we've reached the root of our disagreement. It's exactly how it was intended to be used historically, it's how it is still used for the most part (with webapps being a notable exception), and I think it's the best way to use it going forward.