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Styling will keep a company alive long before a focus on accessibility would kill it. Semantic markup is borderline pointless, except to rationalize design elem
by barrkel 9y ago
Styling will keep a company alive long before a focus on accessibility would kill it. Semantic markup is borderline pointless, except to rationalize design elements and keep them consistent.
I think you're thinking like an engineer rather than a customer. The customer is more important than the engineering, as long as the engineering supports what the customer is trying to do. Very few customers rely on semantic markup, thus it is not very important.
- danielharrison 9y agoSemantic markup is for computer to categorise and file. The easier google can figure out what your page is trying to do, more efficiently it can serve it into the right hands.
- JohnBooty 9y agoThe customer is more important than the engineering, as long as the engineering supports what the customer is trying to do That is, and always has been, pretty much the entire point of good engineering practices such as keeping one's markup as semantic as possible -- allowing us to deliver stuff more gooder and fastener to the customer. I don't think anybody has ever been under the belief that customers really were gonna do a "View Source" on a web page and just marvel at your clean HTML.
- wwweston 9y ago> Semantic markup is borderline pointless, except to rationalize design elements and keep them consistent. Consider that from the beginning of the web, people could have composed pages entirely of image maps with hotspots to direct them (and some did). Or as soon as JS arrived, they could have replaced hyperlinks with scripted behavior (as some did and many do now). Where would Google have come from? Its foundation was largely in the semantics of hyperlinks.