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Well if the DOM is all unstructured divs with no semantic information, can a human even tell what it means without applying the structural styling on the page?
by rezonant 3y ago
Well if the DOM is all unstructured divs with no semantic information, can a human even tell what it means without applying the structural styling on the page?
A good example would be a misguided approach at making a bunch of labels with values that are aligned. Someone told this poor developer that <table> is bad, so they figure hey, let's use CSS to lay it out. They make a dictionary of the key/value pairs and iterate over all the keys in the first column into the first div and then output all the values in the second div.
div
- label 1
- label 2
div
- value 1
- value 2
If there's 100 key/values it's going to be hard for a human to figure out which value is for the 76th item, and LLMs have proven to be very bad at indexing problems like that so I wouldn't expect it to be a better story there.
(Not saying this wouldn't work in some cases, just couldn't be a general solution given the crap out there)