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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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.
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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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Replying to @DLand @LeaVerou @meyerweb
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

Apr 25, 2022 · 5:49 AM UTC
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