Re:A few HTML tips
by tajen on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @07:26AM
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Some day we should deprecate browsing the web with HTML 1.0 tools, apart from web crawlers who know what they are doing. Sticking with that is akin to sticking to horses on the road: It has its advantages, but you can require everyone to build horse-friendly roads for you in 2016. At least horse riders aren't vocal about their bad experience.
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Screen readers, scrapers/crawlers, future readers (will your page be readable in 1000 years?), archiving...
> will your page be readable in 1000 years?
In entire fairness, the evolution of language may well make this impossible, or nearly so, regardless of how you structure your content. It's not unreasonable to shoot for 100 years, though.
> In entire fairness, the evolution of language may well make this impossible, or nearly so, regardless of how you structure your content.
Are you aware that we're completely able to read documents from thousands of years ago? C.f. Caesar's Bellum Gallicum, which is about 2,050 years old.
You're absolutely right, of course. I'm not even sure why I thought that made sense when I said it; thanks for catching the oversight.