On Monday, 16 September 2013 at 17:08:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 9/16/13 9:57 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 16 September 2013 at 16:49:25 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
...
Sounds like you are exactly arguing over the concept of
semantic web and
related tools. Which is a bit weird because it basically
repeats the
debates from various web world articles I have been reading
almost 5
years ago :P Maybe we should use established wisdom of people
who are
doomed to deal with it on daily basis? :P
What is the established wisdom?
Andrei
AFAIR there has been an article about semantic web linked in this
thread. I am not web dev myself by any means but general motto I
hear from Internet publications on topic can be summarized as:
- HTML is for semantics, CSS is for style
- HTML should never interfere with how stuff is viewed
- HTML should be meaningful on its own, even without any CSS
- Meaning of HTML elements is standardized, not so for classes
Importance of last point is often underestimated. Screen readers
have been already mentioned but it also applies for stuff like
search engine robots - better HTML element selection can result
in better search output.
