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rs186 on May 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why can't HTML alone do includes?

I guess for the similar reason that Markdown does not have any "include" ability -- it is a feature not useful enough yet with too many issues to deal with. They are really intended to be used as "single" documents.

rs186 on May 4, 2025 [–]

Yeah people downvote me but can't bother to leave a comment.

If you disagree, and you think you are in the right, you probably have a somewhat good argument you can use in a reply.

The fact that you don't means my explanation makes sense.

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