Re: [xml-dev] Is XML a language or a data format?

[Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

"We had solar-powered pocket calculators
available in late 1970s/early 1980s already."

Sure - made with machinery that required lots of electricity to run
it. Burning wood won't run that machinery. But this is all likely to
be needed in 2023, not 2053. If you read the reliable news.
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Stephen D Green

On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 12:07, Marcus Reichardt <u123724@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A more productive direction to think about IMO would be to look at
> what we (document engineering specialists? markup geeks?) can do to
> bring down energy consumption. With that goal in mind, CSS is
> particularly and criminally bad I'm afraid, due to its pointless
> "cascading" and specificity matching alone, not to speak of its tens
> of vague and underspecified yet partly overconstrained layout
> algorithms in prose, and thousands of microsyntaxes and procedural
> parsing specs nobody is actually using (where CSS 2.1 had a simple
> lex/yacc grammar). If we had started to care about energy efficiency
> on web sites a bit earlier, rather than allow W3C and others to never
> come to an end after 30 year of soul searching and misappropriating
> document technologies for app development just to arrive at browser
> cartels and other quasi-monopolies, we might have low-cost
> solar-powered LCD (monochrome) devices to browse the web available
> today that can reasonably be produced on basic CMOS processes from
> scratch even in developing countries using nothing except silicium
> dioxide plus copper, iron, silver, or other conductive metal plus
> nickel, cadmium, and a few other heavy metals which we have in
> abundance, all of which can be reasonably melted/separated for reuse
> given standardized devices. We had solar-powered pocket calculators
> available in late 1970s/early 1980s already.
>
> Cheers,
> Marcus Reichardt
> sgml.io