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Re:The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML by Vinnl on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:05AM (#27432558)
So you think it's safer to rely on every engineer adding that (and the other facilities provided by web browsers by default when using native elements) to every input field in a form, than relying on them not doing weird things with that one form tag?
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Re:The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML by austincheney on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:51AM (#27433883)
If you train your teammates to do their jobs you won’t have anything to be afraid of.
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Re:The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML by Vinnl on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:31AM (#27434919)
But then why not train them to use <form> correctly? Since you mentioned the reason for not using it was that

> I have seen less experienced developers do weird things with form tags and submit event

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