Re:Front-End Checklist
by seanwilson on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:18PM
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It just doesn't sound significant to me. Crawlers and screen readers happily ignore div and span tags that add nothing to the content, they ignore mobile scaling meta tags in the head etc.
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> they ignore mobile scaling meta tags in the head
Actually the meta viewport "Helps Google’s algorithms accurately assign indexing properties to the page rather than needing to signal the existence of corresponding desktop/mobile pages." [1]
Every bit of code on a page is interpreted a certain way for a reason. HTML5 now has more semantic tags like header and nav that add an additional layer of certainty over context. I'll concede that most developers seem to not care about the reasons why so long as they can push code to production faster.
[1] https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo...