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I was expecting some questions about obscure old school HTML tags and what they were meant for originally. Like others have suggested, maybe rename to cover web

I was expecting some questions about obscure old school HTML tags and what they were meant for originally. Like others have suggested, maybe rename to cover web languages / browser quirks in general?

ars 13y ago
There are plenty of obscure modern HTML tags. If anyway is bored I would love to see a graph of every possible HTML tag (old and new) plotted by frequency of actual use in the wild. Some very rare - non outdated - ones: * colgroup * rowgroup * datalist * optgroup * fieldset * figure * figcaption * hgroup * keygen * legend * mark * ruby * details * summary How many of these do you know? And how many have you ever used?
- chrishepner 13y ago
  I use fieldset and legend frequently. I believe Bootstrap uses these in their example forms, so I don't think these are nearly as obscure as the others. optgroup is occasionally useful for demarcating groups within lists, but this need hasn't come up much in my experience. I also use figure and hgroup, although more just for the sake of using HTML5 elements than anything else!
  - markdown 13y ago
    hgroup has been dropped from the spec. You can/should stop using it :)
- markdown 13y ago
  hgroup has been dropped from the spec. figcaption is actually quite popular now. Most newly-developed "html5" websites use it. fieldset has always been quite common in my experience.
- rurounijones 13y ago
  I would kill for good ruby support in all browsers. As someone learning Japanese it would be a godsend when it comes to reading and learning kanji. However we would also need to pretty specialised editors / automatic converters to write the ruby markup since it is so $&~!@#^ verbose. I still find it ironic that the browser with the best (i.e. working) ruby support is Internet Explorer. (I am aware of some firefox plugins but...ech)

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I was expecting some questions about obscure old school HTML tags and what they were meant for originally. Like others have suggested, maybe rename to cover web

by clarkmoody 13y ago

I was expecting some questions about obscure old school HTML tags and what they were meant for originally. Like others have suggested, maybe rename to cover web languages / browser quirks in general?

ars 13y ago
There are plenty of obscure modern HTML tags. If anyway is bored I would love to see a graph of every possible HTML tag (old and new) plotted by frequency of actual use in the wild. Some very rare - non outdated - ones: * colgroup * rowgroup * datalist * optgroup * fieldset * figure * figcaption * hgroup * keygen * legend * mark * ruby * details * summary How many of these do you know? And how many have you ever used?
- chrishepner 13y ago
  I use fieldset and legend frequently. I believe Bootstrap uses these in their example forms, so I don't think these are nearly as obscure as the others. optgroup is occasionally useful for demarcating groups within lists, but this need hasn't come up much in my experience. I also use figure and hgroup, although more just for the sake of using HTML5 elements than anything else!
  - markdown 13y ago
    hgroup has been dropped from the spec. You can/should stop using it :)
- markdown 13y ago
  hgroup has been dropped from the spec. figcaption is actually quite popular now. Most newly-developed "html5" websites use it. fieldset has always been quite common in my experience.
- rurounijones 13y ago
  I would kill for good ruby support in all browsers. As someone learning Japanese it would be a godsend when it comes to reading and learning kanji. However we would also need to pretty specialised editors / automatic converters to write the ruby markup since it is so $&~!@#^ verbose. I still find it ironic that the browser with the best (i.e. working) ruby support is Internet Explorer. (I am aware of some firefox plugins but...ech)