Posts Tagged ‘Semantics’
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The Problem Of CSS Form Elements
- February 27th, 2013
- 34 Comments
Before 1998, the birth year of CSS Level 2, form elements were already widely implemented in all major browsers. The CSS 2 specification did not address the problem of how form elements should be presented to users. Because these elements are part of the UI of every Web document, the specification’s ...
Read more...Structural SemanticsThe Importance Of HTML5 Sectioning Elements
- January 18th, 2013
- 89 Comments
Whatever you call them — blocks, boxes, areas, regions — we’ve been dividing our Web pages into visible sections for well over a decade. The problem is, we’ve never had the right tools to do so. While our interfaces look all the world like grids, the underlying structure has been ...
Read more...Opinion ColumnThe Road To Reusable HTML Components
- October 23rd, 2012
- 48 Comments
A few weeks ago, I dug up an old article that I wrote for Smashing Magazine, “When One Word Is More Meaningful Than a Thousand.” While I stand firmly behind all of the HTML development principles I listed back then, the article lacked one important thing: hands-on examples. Sure enough, the ...
Read more...HTML5 Semantics
- November 18th, 2011
- 69 Comments
Much of the excitement we’ve seen so far about HTML5 has been for the new APIs: local storage, application cache, Web workers, 2-D drawing and the like. But let’s not overlook that HTML5 brings us 30 new elements to mark up documents and applications, boosting the total number of elements ...
Read more...Pursuing Semantic Value
- November 12th, 2011
- 65 Comments
Disclaimer: This post by Jeremy Keith is one of the many reactions to our recent article on the pursuit of semantic value by Divya Manian. Both articles are published in the Opinion column section in which we provide active members of the community with the opportunity to share their ...
Read more...Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value
- November 11th, 2011
- 173 Comments
Update (November 12th 2011): Read a reply by Jeremy Keith to this article in which he strongly argues about the importance of pursuing semantic value and addresses issues discussed in the article as well as in the comments here on Smashing Magazine. Disclaimer: This article is published in the Opinion column ...
Read more...The Semantic Grid System: Page Layout For Tomorrow
- August 23rd, 2011
- 160 Comments
CSS grid frameworks can make your life easier, but they’re not without their faults. Fortunately, modern techniques offer a new approach to constructing page layouts. But before getting to the solution, we must first understand the three seemingly insurmountable flaws currently plaguing CSS grids. The biggest complaint I’ve heard from purists ...
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