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Mike Paciello
@mpaciello
16 Oct 2015
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@stevefaulkner
: "The span element doesn't mean anything on its own" - HTML5
w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-s…
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Molly E. Holzschlag
@mholzschlag
16 Oct 2015
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@stevefaulkner
If it has no meaning, it shouldn't exist.
Oct 16, 2015 · 4:04 AM UTC
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Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social
@stevefaulkner
16 Oct 2015
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<span> and <div> are used as hooks, usually for visual styling, on their own they are mean nothing to users
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Molly E. Holzschlag
@mholzschlag
16 Oct 2015
@stevefaulkner
@mpaciello
the only users that would ever need to reveal and element would be other webdevs and those using assistive devices
David Storey
@dstorey
16 Oct 2015
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@mpaciello
@stevefaulkner
if they didn’t exist devs would hook styles to things with meaning & we’d be back to table layout
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