Web Rush

Episode 230: Semantic HTML

Episode Summary

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?

Episode Notes

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Recording date: April 6, 2023

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Deprecated HTML tags
• HTML Web docs
• Craig’s HTML course
• The HTML id attribute
• The DIV tag
• SEO tips for HTML
• The font tag
• Can I Use
• XHTML
• Responsive Web Apps
• Goodbye Zen Coding, hello Emmet
• Emmet toolkit
• Emmet in VS Code

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.