Elements, markup, attributes - oh my! John and Craig talk through what you need to know about HTML, what you can stop using, and whether John knows what MDN stands for?

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  episode: 230,
  title: 'Semantic HTML',
  topics: [ 
    'html', 'semantics', 'tags'
  ],
  guest: 'na'
  hosts: [
    'John Papa', 'Craig Shoemaker'
  ]
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Recording date: April 6, 2023

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

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Timejumps

  • 00:31 Welcome back
  • 01:51 The meaning of Craig
  • 03:00 Dom updates
  • 03:40 Never learned HTML
  • 05:43 What are the different pieces of HTML?
  • 08:58 Sponsor: Ag Grid
  • 09:53 Attributes vs property
  • 15:09 Should ID be deprecated?
  • 18:04 What is semantic HTML?
  • 24:57 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
  • 25:56 What has been deprecated in HTML?
  • 33:22 xHTML tangent
  • 36:45 What should developers understand about HTML?
  • 38:09 HTML issues with forms
  • 39:53 What do you think of Emmet?
  • 44:17 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.