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It's easy to downvote this, but what are the advantages of using the "new semantic HTML5 tags" like section and aside? I read plenty of articles about them, and
by PavlovsCat 12y ago
It's easy to downvote this, but what are the advantages of using the "new semantic HTML5 tags" like section and aside? I read plenty of articles about them, and in all the advantages were purely theoretical; sure, search engines or other user engines could do interesting things with it. But do they?
- eponeponepon 12y agoIt's a bit chicken-and-egg, really. If nobody uses them, nobody else will ever bother looking for them - but conversely, if nobody's looking for them, nobody'll use them. Someone has to make the first move. There's some traction in academic publishing - aside in particular has some utility for popup/inline footnoting in some EPUB platforms, and some of the other new HTML5 elements are finding a place in online journal presentations, marking up formal abstracts and so on. There's nothing terribly clever going on yet though, as far as I'm aware, and anything that is will be very much platform or publisher-specific.
- coldtea 12y ago>It's a bit chicken-and-egg, really. If nobody uses them, nobody else will ever bother looking for them - but conversely, if nobody's looking for them, nobody'll use them. Someone has to make the first move. Except if you know, the universe doesn't work this way, and people and entropy will abuse and misuse any such system on a web scale, just like Cory Doctorow suggests.