Episode 230: Semantic HTML
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?
const podcast = { episode: 230, title: 'Semantic HTML', topics: [ 'html', 'semantics', 'tags' ], guest: 'na' hosts: [ 'John Papa', 'Craig Shoemaker' ]};Recording date: April 6, 2023
John Papa @John_Papa
Ward Bell @WardBell
Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
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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.