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this might be controversial, but i just want to write semantic html and be able to toggle the design. if the design requires additional elements or JS, then it’

this might be controversial, but i just want to write semantic html and be able to toggle the design. if the design requires additional elements or JS, then it’s way too complex for a solo dev (for me anyway). i think classless css frameworks really opened up the possibility for backend devs to spin up a project as long as they can write good thoughtful html. i’m building my own classless stylesheet that i plan to use across all of my projects because todays classless are mostly for content or marketing sites but what i need is more app ui.

ashes-of-sol 4y ago
hedora 4y ago
I just want to read semantic HTML and handle the page formatting myself.
ffhhj 4y ago
Do you plan to define your own tags to have a richer semantic html, and then translate it into plain html with corresponding js/css? Because html is very poor. Where is my menu tag??
- clairity 4y ago
  > "Where is my menu tag??" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/menu https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me... <menu> is used like an unordered list, with <li> tags inside it, but has a specific semantic meaning.
  - ffhhj 4y ago
    But <menu> should contain <option> not list item <li>. They got the semantic wrong to reuse the list as a shortcut and called it a day.
clairity 4y ago
> "i’m building my own classless stylesheet that i plan to use across all of my projects..." i'm doing the same! i tried use bootstrap again recently, and although it's gotten better from older versions, i just couldn't atop fighting it's anti-semantic assumptions (don't even get me started on tailwind!).