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@bpanulla I can understand that. We have a terrible legacy of education, though, which is a real problem I've spent 20 years not solving.
The dismantling of the document object model (DOM) for a system of APIs is causing folks incredible lack of clarity. The DOM *IS* an API.
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I really dislike HTML5 for making every Web developer think he or she has to build a responsive app, add 10,000 scripts, use a JS framework.
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So we have HTML from SGML (declarative); and HTML5 emerged from a quicker route to APP development. Great. No need to destroy the DOCUMENT.
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@cwilso Geek cred! Do you have Charles Goldfarb's? Dude's a lawyer. Wrote like one too. :) @bikehugger
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Therefore, it may be that #HTML5 in its entirety is an anti-pattern. Since it also betrays its own design principles, an anti anti pattern.
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One of the reasons the Web is getting messier and more difficult to manage is because of #HTML5's blatant disregard for known patterns.
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So as a rewrite, #HTML5 technically now is separate from SGML, no longer responsible to its declarative nature or its rigor.
SGML has TWO premises: the first to be declarative; the second to be rigorous. HTML from SGML can adhere to this. But #HTML5 is a rewrite.
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And, pray tell, what does "No special meaning at all" mean? It means NOTHING. What defines special? Is that in the spec too?
Semantic *is* meaning. Should the entire and comparatively ancient field of Linguistics now adopt #HTML5's nomenclature? How MEANINGFUL.
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So HTML5 can redefine the entire study of linguistics? What do people think MARKUP is. Here is the problem with #HTML5 - it's NOT MARKUP.
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We #webfolk are so presumptuous as to redefine semantics. Do folks NOT get how ironic this is? I'm with Dilbert.
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READ THIS: Semantically "neutral" is a MISNOMER. Semantics=Meaning; Div=Division(literal); Span=Span (literal). @stevefaulkner #webdev #STOP
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@jessicaivins When Twitter is down to a few hundred thousand users, it will be fun, like the old days! This isn't death, this is rebirth! ;)
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@Herne Right? I'm like, hey, you ASKED! Don't wanna hear it, don't ask.
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