Timeline for Why would one bother marking up properly and semantically?
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| Apr 7, 2017 at 8:21 | comment | added | unflores | If you have semantic tagging then you can potentially do things with it. You can treat a telephone number as a telephone number. If you have misleading tags or no tags, it's very hard to know about the data. If your telephone number isn't present, and you just have an empty div, it doesn't give you a lot of options. The more structured your documents, the easier they will be to handle. | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 17:24 | answer | added | Raj Kiran Singh | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 0:45 | comment | added | user16764 | A <time> tags exposes a dateTime attribute, which can be used in your Javascript. That's a technical reason to use it. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 0:29 | answer | added | Chris Moschini | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 21, 2012 at 15:39 | comment | added | GlenPeterson | Years ago, artificial intelligence people got very excited about marking up natural languages by meaning (headings, list items, paragraphs, etc.) so that some day that content could be... searchable! Machines could begin to actually understand text with such markup. Enter the WWW and everyone hacking together HTML by hand and the major search engines of the world evolved to ignore all that and deliver great search results despite the so-called semantic markup being done wrong. | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 12:27 | answer | added | smonff | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 20:34 | comment | added | GHP | Meah. I remember getting jazzed about Microformats a few years back, only to stop using them when I realized that they had zero impact on my apps. | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 19:00 | comment | added | mouviciel | <address> is not that new. It existed on the very first versions of HTML, long before 1.0. | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 17:53 | answer | added | pgraham | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 15:44 | comment | added | user1249 | Indeed why. If you cannot see any need for it, then don't. | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 9:16 | comment | added | Madara's Ghost | @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen: Touché, but if the page works (as in, human readabele) why would I add fancy elements like time? | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 7:45 | comment | added | user1249 | "for people to read, not computers". Well, in that case I guess they will read it in a news paper or a magazine, then? | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 7:05 | comment | added | Madara's Ghost | @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen: Really? I'm writing a website for people to read, not computers. I want people to read my content, and eventually come to my store or whatever (speaking from a client perspective here) | |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 21:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/247077669299167232 | ||
| Sep 15, 2012 at 19:44 | history | edited | jmort253 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited your top paragraph so your question doesn't get closed as a list/poll type question, which would be not constructive. In short, try to refrain from encouraging others to post lists. Good luck! |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 19:34 | vote | accept | Madara's Ghost | ||
| Sep 15, 2012 at 18:36 | answer | added | Jukka K. Korpela | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 18:19 | comment | added | user1249 | You are adding information for a computer, not for a human. | |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 17:46 | answer | added | Zelda | timeline score: 102 | |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 17:43 | history | edited | Madara's Ghost | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Explained I meant the HTML5 elements |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 17:27 | answer | added | Levi Morrison | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 17:24 | answer | added | Gordon | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 17:12 | history | asked | Madara's Ghost | CC BY-SA 3.0 |