[ericfontaine]

how about just use whitespace, like python:

  div class="red"
    p
      Hello, World!

(of course I know would not look nice if had to place <b>tags</b> inside of single line of text, and might get a little too indenty)

[TheAceOfHearts]

This is basically jade[0]. Although jade isn't quite as smart, so the expression you wrote would be considered invalid.

[0] jade-lang.com

[ericfontaine]

interesting. Very clean looking.

[jaredmcateer]

You absolutely have to split jade documents and use includes/blocks though, any decent sized page, even if it's static becomes unmanageable very quickly.

[icantthinkofone]

Because whitespace matters in HTML.

[ericfontaine]

good point, but could you elaborate?

[icantthinkofone]

One quick example.

Certain elements are, or can be made to be, "inline" which gets them treated the same as characters on a line. Thus those elements, such as an image, will have white space between them as a word does in a paragraph. If you butt those element's tags right next to each other, with no white space between them, then there will be no white space on the displayed page.

[ufo]

This is good for hand-written html but annoying for machine-written html.

[ericfontaine]

machine would just have to count '/t' tabs at beginning of each line to parse. Is that any slower than scanning every character for '<'?