I write HTML by hand, and I am into retro-computing, so I write for Any Browser (with progressive enhancement for cooler features). The p tag is one of the mos

I write HTML by hand, and I am into retro-computing, so I write for Any Browser (with progressive enhancement for cooler features). The p tag is one of the most frequent. I use span tags for placeholders in templates, that way the HTML is still usable before it is filled in. The tag form is important to remember, because older browsers will not even display input elements without it, and you won't be able to address them. The font tag gets a lot of scorn these days, but it is the only compatible way to color individual parts of text in older browsers, so I use it sparingly, via templates. There is a subset of HTML 2.0 which works consistently across about 25 years of browsers, and I think it is one of the most amazing technologies we have in the world, for its longevity, resilience, and open/unowned nature.