For people just learning HTML: I think they would have an easier time if they were taught that HTML tags mean something rather than perform a function. I know w

For people just learning HTML: I think they would have an easier time if they were taught that HTML tags mean something rather than perform a function. I know when I was learning HTML you would use tags to make a document look a certain way much like you would use MS Paint to draw a picture. The web has evolved and HTML takes care of describing what the content is. That's a big difference. Wouldn't the concept of "Use whatever tags you want to describe your content but here is a list of ones that are already reserved for other functions." be simple enough to pick up? It's the same idea with programming. Updating HTML standard: That's what the doctype could be for, for introducing new tags and functionality without breaking the old. Atleast that is what the doctype should be used for.