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This page is so old school that I looked at the source HTML and learned something. U tag: What is that? According to w3schools, it "represents some text that i

This page is so old school that I looked at the source HTML and learned something. U tag: What is that? According to w3schools, it "represents some text that is unarticulated and styled differently from normal text." B tag: What is it? Bring attention to elelemnt - or, in most browsers, boldface (huh). So, put them together and you get those underlined section headings. New to me!

twoodfin 6y ago
Not to veer too far into Reddit territory, but wow that makes me feel old. <a> and were just about all the tags we had in 1994!
- stan_rogers 6y ago
 The heading tags (<H1> to <H6>) were there (and implemented, unlike the <HPX> "highlighted phrase" tags from tbl's list) from the beginning as well. So were <DL>, <DT> and <DD>, along with <UL> and <LI> for lists that weren't glossary terms. We also had <PLAINTEXT> and <LISTING> precursors to <pre>, <tt> (may it rest in peace) and <code>. (I couldn't tell you what they looked like in a graphical browser as I was using Lynx on DOS boxes as the time - HTML was handy even without HTTP on our parallel-port-and-telephone-wire network.) There were other tags that didn't last very long, too, like the <ADDRESS> tag for the author's meatspace address (makes sense for scientific collaboration, not so much for, say, political discussion boards).
fastasucan 6y ago
Way to go make a guy under 35 feel old!
lmm 6y ago
U is underline AFAIK; what would "unarticulated" even mean?
- julianeon 6y ago
 I think it used to mean 'underline', then got changed because that was considered undesirable. From the link above: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u > You should not use to simply underline text for presentation purposes, or to denote titles of books. > To underline text without implying any semantic meaning, use a element with the text-decoration property set to "underline"..."
slim 6y ago
I use them constantly. mainly for shortness is 80% less than
yesenadam 6y ago
developer.mozilla.org sheds some (slightly confusing) light on that: It used to mean underline..uh rather, still makes an underline but should instead be used for such things as squiggly lines under misspelt words – "The HTML Unarticulated Annotation Element () represents a span of inline text which should be rendered in a way that indicates that it has a non-textual annotation. This is rendered by default as a simple solid underline, but may be altered using CSS. This element used to be called the "Underline" element in older versions of HTML, and is still sometimes misused in this way. To underline text, you should instead apply a style that includes the CSS text-decoration property set to underline. ... Along with other pure styling elements, the original HTML Underline () element was deprecated in HTML 4; however, was restored in HTML 5 with a new, semantic, meaning: to mark text as having some form of non-textual annotation applied. Valid use cases for the element include annotating spelling errors, applying a proper name mark to denote proper names in Chinese text, and other forms of annotation. You should not use to simply underline text for presentation purposes, or to denote titles of books. To underline text without implying any semantic meaning, use a element with the text-decoration property set to "underline"..." https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u

twoodfin 6y ago

Not to veer too far into Reddit territory, but wow that makes me feel old. <a> and were just about all the tags we had in 1994!

stan_rogers 6y ago
The heading tags (<H1> to <H6>) were there (and implemented, unlike the <HPX> "highlighted phrase" tags from tbl's list) from the beginning as well. So were <DL>, <DT> and <DD>, along with <UL> and <LI> for lists that weren't glossary terms. We also had <PLAINTEXT> and <LISTING> precursors to <pre>, <tt> (may it rest in peace) and <code>. (I couldn't tell you what they looked like in a graphical browser as I was using Lynx on DOS boxes as the time - HTML was handy even without HTTP on our parallel-port-and-telephone-wire network.) There were other tags that didn't last very long, too, like the <ADDRESS> tag for the author's meatspace address (makes sense for scientific collaboration, not so much for, say, political discussion boards).

fastasucan 6y ago

Way to go make a guy under 35 feel old!

lmm 6y ago

U is underline AFAIK; what would "unarticulated" even mean?

julianeon 6y ago
I think it used to mean 'underline', then got changed because that was considered undesirable. From the link above: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u > You should not use to simply underline text for presentation purposes, or to denote titles of books. > To underline text without implying any semantic meaning, use a element with the text-decoration property set to "underline"..."

slim 6y ago

I use them constantly. mainly for shortness is 80% less than

yesenadam 6y ago

developer.mozilla.org sheds some (slightly confusing) light on that: It used to mean underline..uh rather, still makes an underline but should instead be used for such things as squiggly lines under misspelt words – "The HTML Unarticulated Annotation Element () represents a span of inline text which should be rendered in a way that indicates that it has a non-textual annotation. This is rendered by default as a simple solid underline, but may be altered using CSS. This element used to be called the "Underline" element in older versions of HTML, and is still sometimes misused in this way. To underline text, you should instead apply a style that includes the CSS text-decoration property set to underline. ... Along with other pure styling elements, the original HTML Underline () element was deprecated in HTML 4; however, was restored in HTML 5 with a new, semantic, meaning: to mark text as having some form of non-textual annotation applied. Valid use cases for the element include annotating spelling errors, applying a proper name mark to denote proper names in Chinese text, and other forms of annotation. You should not use to simply underline text for presentation purposes, or to denote titles of books. To underline text without implying any semantic meaning, use a element with the text-decoration property set to "underline"..." https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u