specs compliance fetishism would be semantic web. The reason so much has been written on it is that it's so messy and practically people never get it right. HTM

specs compliance fetishism would be semantic web. The reason so much has been written on it is that it's so messy and practically people never get it right. HTML is so overloaded for multiple functions (content, logic, presentation and now accessibility), so is it really a surprise that it sucks at all of these?