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While I’m sympathetic to the aims of this manifesto, I can’t help but see the paradox of “free hand” being antithetical to html, a format that chose semantic ov
by adolph 2y ago
While I’m sympathetic to the aims of this manifesto, I can’t help but see the paradox of “free hand” being antithetical to html, a format that chose semantic over aesthetic, and legibility over expressiveness.
- rchaud 2y agoAuthor here: Very true! I didn't go into it in the article itself, but you are correct. HTML has a pretty strict hierarchy of elements to maintain a semantic style. While this is helpful for those using screen readers, or running search crawlers or AI scrapers, it is unfortunate that this decision mostly excludes the ability to build freeform layouts without incurring SEO and potentially WCAG penalties.