I think that the way HTML5 is used these days is more as a way to build a design, rather than a way to deliver semantic content. When looking at the Alexa top 1

I think that the way HTML5 is used these days is more as a way to build a design, rather than a way to deliver semantic content. When looking at the Alexa top 1000, you'll find not a single semantic website that cares about their markup, most of them not even having an alternative text for images. The Semantic Web also came with the idea of separating content, design and functionality; and came with the idea of having optional JS rather than integrating it to build intermixed components and (ab-?)using it to build a web page. Personally, I think that this is a view on "how to build a website" that a lot of web developers lack these days, because they just clutter their web page full of JSX and don't care about how it looks like - as long as it is a pixelperfect implementation of what they are tasked to implement. Webpack and others just minify it anyways, so nobody cares whether or not their code can be read by humans. The difference to how web development was perceived back then was that a handcrafted website was worth much more, and developers would argue and defend their implementations with things like "but it's validated, and it has print stylesheets!". But anyways, with that experience comes a lot of understanding what the Web used to be: It was a web of craftsmanship, and not a web of advertisement. People were proud of what they built. Personally, I hope that people value my craftsmanship; so my personal websites all have code that I can identify myself with and that I'm proud of. So my portfolio includes a lot of gimmicks for kids, people, and likeminded people that they can explore and be fascinated with. [1] Coming full circle to what I hope the web could be: I think that a mixture of the Semantic aspects and today's Web Apps are necessary, and that this can only be achieved using swarm intelligence mechanisms. A centralized way is always too proprietary to outlive its creator. Combining that with a decentralized approach for training AIs on the labels could be a glimmer of hope that the web isn't lost yet. That's why I started to build Tholian and its Browser [2] [1] https://cookie.engineer https://cookie.engineer [2] https://tholian.network https://tholian.network