What if we'd had better html-in-js syntax all along? I have a theory that a grave mistake was made in 1995 - the decision not to have a neat, succinct and declarative way of representing html elements in javascript. [On reading the hacker news comments this is pretty historically inaccurate, however, I think this article still stands as "look just how close javascript object notation is to a reasonable way of representing html".] In this post, I'm going to describe the current state of affair...
