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Much of it is a structural representation of how to display the content.

• cluckindan 11mo ago
  In practice, sometimes. But in principle, hard disagree. HTML was explicitly designed to semantically represent scientific documents. [1] ”HTML documents represent a media-independent description of interactive content. HTML documents might be rendered to a screen, or through a speech synthesizer, or on a braille display. To influence exactly how such rendering takes place, authors can use a styling language such as CSS.” [2] 1: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#background https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#bac... 2: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#:~:text=HTML%20documents%20represent%20a%20media%2Dindependent%20description%20of%20interactive%20content. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#:~:...