This is so sad. After over a decade of trying, HTML goes back to absolute only heading levels due to lack of implementations. 😔
Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social @stevefaulkner
17 Apr 2022
👉🏾I spent a bit of time over Easter attempting to clean up the #HTML spec in regards to outline algorithm github.com/whatwg/html/pull/…
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It's 2022: everything is a div. Semantic html remains a pipe dream of the early oughts.
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Replying to @DLand @LeaVerou @meyerweb
Again the term semantic HTML is either redundant in meaning or lacks meaning. Using section properly meaning both the element and resulting content are correlated is meaningful. Lexically semantic. But use a paragraph to contain an energy elements in line? Meaningless in HTML5.

Apr 25, 2022 · 5:34 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @LeaVerou @meyerweb
Yes! An example in the above thread has <section><h5>blah</h5></section>, which is nonsense unless the entire content of that document section is meant to be one heading. "Section" is a container. Tag names mean things. Failure to grok the SGML roots of HTML is a problem.
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It is indeed a problem and it's not just the sgml routes it's the actual significance of a given element to the content meaning and vice versa. But yes the legacy is definitely from sgml. If it were XML serialization it would be a multiple programming Paradigm
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Replying to @mholzschlag @LeaVerou @meyerweb
Thank you. It grieves me that html has always had the power to express structural meaning in documents, but the rise of "web apps" replaced its expressiveness with a bland uniformity. Also that "10x devs" paid high 6-digits know NOTHING about the tools of their trade.
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Preach! I am with you. If we avoid presentational HTML meaning is there but not really strong. Different uses sure but illogical to choose sloppy over rigorous? by 2009 the original HTML WG lost its Charter. Meaningful markup has gone downhill since.
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Replying to @mholzschlag @DLand @LeaVerou @meyerweb
I meant image element sorry I'm using voice to text again talk about shity accessibility implementations