HTML5 innovated in the wrong direction. At some level, I am a contientious thinker, and respect that any step forward is fine. Yet, and further, the decision for semantic tags is awful.
That's Right! I Went Political On That One! ⭐
Semantic elements must have been thought of by a non-HTML developer. The written experience is not valuable, and the true 100% for real, non-marketing jargon value add for HTML5 semantic elements is ZERO.
The conspicuous factor about the addition of these elements is that someone made the decision in the first place.
For the record, there is absolutely and undoubtedly zero value added for the human reader of an HTML page when <section> is used instead of <div>. The readers of the elements are web scraping utilities, i.e. software. The key player in this regard is Google.
An entire major spec was invented just for Google. That actually happened, and the world needs to recognize that.
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- Sept. 25: The HTML Innovation
- Sept. 27: HTML Should Be For People
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