| > Of course we can go around and redefine "semantic html" to mean "use <h1> instead of <div class="header1">, Redefine? I'm pretty sure it hasn't meant anything different. It's about semantically marking up a document. > but if we are to use that watered down definition, the whole article loses what could potentially have made it interesting and descends into 'duh' territory. But you assumed it was around that, then said that was dead. The other definition (the one wikipedia and everyone else seems to use) is something that lots of people still don't follow. Did you see the "new way of writing" last week? That had an article structure but didn't mark it up properly, screwing with the order when you removed CSS and made a big block of json invisible on the page. In fact you yourself said: > Just toss in a few divs, use simple tech like html and css to make it look good, send the invoice, go home Can you see why that sounds exactly like the people who don't use things like <section>, <nav>, etc? The same people that won't bother putting in alt tags because 'nobody reads them'? In fact, XKCD is an example of buggering this simple thing up. HN is built out of tables, where replies are indented with a spacing gif. Basic semantic HTML is not commonplace. |