Just to clarify, I google a lot while coding, but one thing I learnt from my engineering degree is that is there is no ‘best’ solution.

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    By definition, it is a markup language, but I have seen recently that it has a few elements that kinda feel like programming.

    Though you do tend to require some JS to complete the logic.


    On the other hand, just because someone uses a non-programming language, does not surely make them not a programmer

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        It’s nice to be the case.

        But doing all the programming in CSS is too hard for a on-shot hobby-site maker like me.

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      Writing html is absolute programming in 99% of the cases. You program the structure of a web page, even more so if you use templating or integrate structure with js functionality.

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        program the structure of a web page

        In a loose sense, yes.

        But then someone could also say that when making LATEX templates is programming the structure of the documents.

        I prefer calling it markup, because, even though people might prefer calling it ‘programming’, due to people’s high esteem perception of the word, if you look at it from a neutral standpoint, markup is a word that represents the actual work, much more closely.

        e.g. I use Qt Designer[1] to create UI stuff, and in some cases QML[2] and if I were to only be defining placements, shapes, sizes and colours of elements, I would like to call that part as marking-up the UI [3], while the part where I define functions, timers and connections would be the programming part.


        1. which is a UI to create UI stuff, which creates an XML definition of the final UI to be generated ↩︎

        2. which is based on JS ↩︎

        3. of course I don’t because nobody would understand, but if people did care about the word (and I kinda like the word), it would be more accurate ↩︎