HTML clicked for me one day when I mentally decoupled the hypertext from the actual browser rendering. So many of us think HTML and imagine the point is to render a webpage. But HTML describes the semantics, topology, and content of a document. It’s 100% valid to “render” HTML in some other format like a PDF or an mp3.
I'm hoping we see a move to allow the rendering of the webpage to be entirely up to the users. Just provide the data, and let me decide how I want to interact with it. But that would ruin SEO and Ads, so we're gonna get in a buncha legal battles about web scrapers instead.
Is it kind of a compromise then to "tag" HTML with classes for CSS?
CSS doing the "rendering," like laying out mobile-responsive versus desktop.
I wonder how we would separate out explicit class names from HTML, unless the tags themselves are <custom-names />. (Micro frontends & web components?)
Waterluvian|2 years ago
HTML clicked for me one day when I mentally decoupled the hypertext from the actual browser rendering. So many of us think HTML and imagine the point is to render a webpage. But HTML describes the semantics, topology, and content of a document. It’s 100% valid to “render” HTML in some other format like a PDF or an mp3.
gAI|2 years ago
turtleyacht|2 years ago
CSS doing the "rendering," like laying out mobile-responsive versus desktop.
I wonder how we would separate out explicit class names from HTML, unless the tags themselves are <custom-names />. (Micro frontends & web components?)
Then it sort of works out nicely, I think.