Who Here Actually Likes Microsoft?

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WereKitten said:

^With HTML the tags don't actually "behave" at all, save for the elementary operation of http POST. They only _describe_, that's why it's declarative.
The way they are rendered is actually in the CSS specs, and being a cascading mechanism means that you can combine all available effects in classes and subclasses or even with qualifiers that have no equivalent in OOP but are much more useful when describing a document.
If only IE actually honoured things like first-child...

Please provide an example of using JS to "produce functionality" of a tag, because I think you're confusing content, presentation and actions ( you know, the model-view-controller separation)

Well, that is somewhat my point.  WPF, Flex, and Silverlight (maybe JavaFX but I haven't worked with that yet) all provide an infinite amount of flexibility while also allowing for the use of the simple markup on the front end.  It is a perfect marriage of developer and designers.  Perhaps we are looking at this from different points of view.  I love the new RIA style because I am a programmer, and it enables me to make prettier stuff, much, much easier.  It allows me to come out of my backend systems cave a little more easily.