Re:I'm Betting on HTML
by lmm on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:38PM
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Potentially they could have semantics in the future, but right now they don't. If you make a user agent that relies on them having those semantics, that user agent will misinterpret a lot of web pages.
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Re:I'm Betting on HTML
by cratermoon on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:49PM
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I can create CSS to style the two tags accordingly, and in within my own work I can make them mean different things to the tools I use to create and manage html.
Sure. But you could always do that for any tags, regardless of - even in opposition to - their official semantics.
Re:I'm Betting on HTML
by cratermoon on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:59PM
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There are only two hard problems in programming: cache invalidation and naming. When programmers give something a name inconsistent with it's behavior, it's going to cause a problem.