2025-06-22,
of angles and brackets

2017-08-11 – Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
view from a restaurant, Ko Tao, Thailand

DJ Bobo Chihuahua ↗

<div>
  <p>
    some text with
    <a href="https://example.com">a link</a>
  <p>
</div>

the other day, Marcin Wichary (Shift Happens) got to wondering why HTML uses less-than, greater-than < > instead of brackets [ ] similar to BBCode

[div]
  [p]
    some text with
    [a href="https://example.com"]a link[/a]
  [/p]
[/div]

Once in a while I imagine ↗

but in the process, he pointed out a couple extra features of SGML: unclosed short tags and empty tags

[div[p]
  some text with
  [a href="https://example.com"]a link[/]
[/p[/div]

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