HTML? More like ACHE-TML!

Where did it go wrong? Why has such a simple mark-up language turn into the bloated, over-compensation it is today? What do you turn to? XML? CSS? XHTML? PHP? CGI? ASP? SQL? PERL? HEX? BINARY? ELECTRICAL PULSES? INFARED? TWO CUPS ON A STRING?

>>2 for everywhere it applies. For example, an electronic book: no PDF bullshit.

>>7 is right. <shit>...</shit> sucks. I'd rather have $tagname{ ... }.

>>8
JavaScript has amazing uses, but it's misused 99% of the times. See GMail. See n00b statusbar scrollprint.
Flash has good uses, but it's misused 99.999999% of the times. See Google Video (fuck shitty streaming plugins, fuck shitty players, fuck their configuration, and fuck their lame compatibility). See anything else.

>>9
Tables for layout are not bad. The other choices are one or more of: butt ugly, harder to maintain, more complicated, less compatible, not dynamically adjusted.

WYSIWYG editors are for n00bs and "professional" webmasters. Anybody with a brain writes HTML by hand.