You wouldn't need something that complex, and it seems the author has a philosophical disagreement with CSS as such.
I would love be able to write a gem document where I can say this is a quote, this is an emph light text and this is an emph text, this is a table and this is a link and then it will be up to the client to choose how it wishes to display it, including just as text.
I prefer inline links strongly, but I require inline images and tables for it to have any value directly. It would be an obvious benefit to include support for inline math too, something that we still don't have on the web.
And no a link to a table or an image is not a replacement for an inline one (though it is an obvious fallback for terminal renders).
Such a format would be really nice to access information in, it would be easy to save/proxy for online access and it would still be possible to include ads (of the still image, non tracking variant).
I would love be able to write a gem document where I can say this is a quote, this is an emph light text and this is an emph text, this is a table and this is a link and then it will be up to the client to choose how it wishes to display it, including just as text.
I prefer inline links strongly, but I require inline images and tables for it to have any value directly. It would be an obvious benefit to include support for inline math too, something that we still don't have on the web.
And no a link to a table or an image is not a replacement for an inline one (though it is an obvious fallback for terminal renders).
Such a format would be really nice to access information in, it would be easy to save/proxy for online access and it would still be possible to include ads (of the still image, non tracking variant).