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allison

wait did they really retcon <b> as the "bring attention to" element lol developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

11 Jan 2023 at 19:51 | Open on friend.camp
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Jason Lefkowitz
Jason Lefkowitz

@aparrish "Do not confuse the <b> element with the <strong>, <em>, or <mark> elements. The <strong> element represents text of certain importance..."

wow, they really are committed to this particular bit

11 Jan 2023 at 19:53 | Open on octodon.social
allison
Jason Lefkowitz

@aparrish holy crap! I'm dying laughing over here. Who decided this was the way to go, I want a name

11 Jan 2023 at 19:54 | Open on octodon.social
Andy Lundell 🙄

@jalefkowit @aparrish

"< u >: The Unarticulated Annotation"

Fantastic. I was wondering how they were going to get out of that one, but they came through.

11 Jan 2023 at 19:55 | Open on octodon.social
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allison

@jalefkowit i'm just as susceptible to puritan technical distinctions as the next programmer. but at some point you have to recognize that when you're defining a "semantic" tag in terms of the kind of type that is typically used to express those semantics... you have to admit to yourself that content and presentation are forever inextricably entangled

11 Jan 2023 at 19:55 | Open on friend.camp
Jason Lefkowitz

@aparrish It's not even a technical distinction, though. It's just pure woo conjured out of thin air to avoid having to say "we realized later that these things shouldn't be tags at all, but not until after we reimplemented them a few times like idiots"

11 Jan 2023 at 19:56 | Open on octodon.social
tim 🍓
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Kip Manley

@aparrish Stares in oh-come-the-flippin-heck-ON

11 Jan 2023 at 19:53 | Open on social.tchncs.de
David Renshaw
Marissa Cummings 吳至佳

@aparrish I don't hate this because it's emphasizing the semantic purpose separate from the formatting, which makes sense.

11 Jan 2023 at 19:54 | Open on zirk.us
Erin Kissane
Bobby
Cameo Wood
phooky

@aparrish look there's a lot of computing lore and it's really difficult to maintain continuity; reboots are unavoidable. You can't expect HTML to maintain the same cast of characters and origin stories based on a handful silver age comic books written in 1959

11 Jan 2023 at 20:00 | Open on octodon.social
Camilo Bravo :bass: :drumset:

@aparrish *checks date* wait it's not April

11 Jan 2023 at 20:01 | Open on musicians.today
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