ITT: silly ideas we have

Yet UML specifications are not chunks of text, nor are the sketches you draw on your notebook. This goes to prove that your brain does in fact not think in terms of text natively.
Maybe visual programming just needs more research.

Plain text is the lowest common denominator. You'll get something that works with existing text editors and existing version control.
Good editors and IDEs let you operate on the program at a higher level. They complete identifiers for you, track them across the file, insert scaffolding for control structures, and so on. Most syntax errors are avoided, and you're immediately told about the ones you do make.
They can do that because programming languages are designed to be converted to an abstract representation that can be reasoned about.

i was thinking about a web browser that can only deal with HTML CSS and PHP how retarded is this?

HTML+CSS is how pre-1995 web browsers ran, so it's a good thing.
PHP is supposed to be used as a server-side language, so it doesn't make sense to include it in a browser.

You can do this with any browser today. All you have to do is disable Javascript.

(version seml-1)(document :title "My Awesome Websight" :lang en :style "/static/style.ss" :script "/static/script.cl")(header (image "/static/banner.png" :float left) (unordered-list :float right :horizontal :style none (link "/about.seml" About me) (link "/cgi-bin/contact.cl" Contact me)))(section About this site (p This site is a collection of my ebin warez.) (ordered-list (link "/nd.seml" Nigger detector) (link "/tads.seml" Terry A. Davis Simulator)))(footer (p (sym copy) (date Y) Faglord.))
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Visual programming research is a waste of resources and any publicly-funded project on such should be defunded

My stupid idea is standardisation of PC-setup tiers for gaming. Nothing to do with manufacturing the computers themselves but just a checklist of minimum hardware capabilities a computer must have to qualify as "tier X"

Doom: PC requirements: tier 4

If it wasn't a retarded idea, it would provide guidelines for game developers in the same way console specs do.

If you disable JS most sites nowdays break

Good that you created this thread, OP, I have been ruminating this stupid idea for a software for some time
Why do we use shitty Adobe's® PDF when SHTML exist outside of the binary/printing uses
What I would like to see is a 90's website-builder-like program for creating documents and static websites, as they are documents in the end
I was thinking about the following benefits:
We do everything on mobile today, and to open a PDF on it is a pain. Nobody prints documents anymore and even if they do SHTML does the job
The web ecosystem is huge and mature, we would have all kind of document builders of every use-case and platform, even webapps Normies loves webapps
Also, anyone would be able to jump from the WYSIWYG to the markup code without having to learn the shady PostScript
Everybody has a browser installed and HTML can be opened even from the terminal. The only problem is that Chromium and Firefox does not support SHTML, but that can be easily fixed
Its more secure for obvious reasons

I know its a shit idea, otherwise this would already exist

yeah, all the bad ones

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