The nice thing about semantic HTML is that any metadata and structured data is a part of the document itself instead of hidden away somewhere else through an API. This has its disadvantages (I'd rather interact with an API than scrape a website, even if it's all tidy and semantic) but it absolutely also has advantages. The usual alternative to semantic HTML is not a well-designed API, the alternative tends to be nothing.
Which is neither here nor there regarding the validity or not of what I say, and a little rude to boot.
>The nice thing about semantic HTML is that any metadata and structured data is a part of the document itself instead of hidden away somewhere else through an API. This has its disadvantages (I'd rather interact with an API than scrape a website, even if it's all tidy and semantic) but it absolutely also has advantages. The usual alternative to semantic HTML is not a well-designed API, the alternative tends to be nothing
Which is fine too, since the usual case also is that nobody is consuming the raw html anyway except the browser.
I write my HTML semantically primarily for myself. It's far easier to read, debug, and develop when the structure makes sense and isn't littered with a dozen nested divs with incredibly complicated class names.
>I write my HTML semantically primarily for myself. It's far easier to read, debug, and develop when the structure makes sense and isn't littered with a dozen nested divs with incredibly complicated class names.
Sure, but nobody called for "a dozen nested divs". You can ease the same number of divs, semantically or not. Just make the styling targets are encompassing as they can be.
The nice thing about semantic HTML is that any metadata and structured data is a part of the document itself instead of hidden away somewhere else through an API. This has its disadvantages (I'd rather interact with an API than scrape a website, even if it's all tidy and semantic) but it absolutely also has advantages. The usual alternative to semantic HTML is not a well-designed API, the alternative tends to be nothing.