Re:I'm Betting on HTML
by skeeter2020 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:51AM
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>> ... semantic HTML is more important now than ever
Except... semantic HTML has never been important. Forget about implementation and adoption, even the abstraction falls apart after about 30 seconds of critique. It's a weird mix of structure-like tags that seem to solely serve the newspaper industry from 25 years ago, half-baked UI elements and a handful of directives. The non-semantic elements have to make up more than 99.9% of the internet today. It seems the author missed the of XML and transforms if this is what they wanted.
Except... semantic HTML has never been important. Forget about implementation and adoption, even the abstraction falls apart after about 30 seconds of critique. It's a weird mix of structure-like tags that seem to solely serve the newspaper industry from 25 years ago, half-baked UI elements and a handful of directives. The non-semantic elements have to make up more than 99.9% of the internet today. It seems the author missed the of XML and transforms if this is what they wanted.