Verbosity is the obvious answer, but this past year I stumbled into a conclusion that wasn't obvious to me before: "semantic" HTML isn't serving authors' needs-

Verbosity is the obvious answer, but this past year I stumbled into a conclusion that wasn't obvious to me before: "semantic" HTML isn't serving authors' needs--it's serving the UA's needs. I picked at what I mean a little in a post this summer: https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/the_gizmos_role_in_markup/ https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/the_gizmos_role_in_markup/ (I've also made the first post in an unfinished series that will continue to explore these ideas about markup, but a bit less directly: https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/what_color_is_your_markup/ https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/what_color_is_your_markup/)