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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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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Replying to @DLand @LeaVerou @meyerweb
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.

Apr 25, 2022 · 6:09 AM UTC
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