The DOM has exactly eight words of content and no forms or links at all. I'm worried about this trend of tutorials from authors who fail to get the very basics

The DOM has exactly eight words of content and no forms or links at all. I'm worried about this trend of tutorials from authors who fail to get the very basics like progressive enhancement right. We should be showing pages with better authoring than average to novices, because most of the web will eventually converge on the quality of the average tutorial today.