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#HTML thread. I love @HTTPArchive’s 2019 Almanac—this is excellent data for all of us. I’m still reviewing but in this thread I wish to share some impressions from the Almanac’s markup chapter (almanac.httparchive.org/en/2019/markup).
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@HTTPArchive The top elements look like there’s less presentational markup. Fewer layout tables, fewer line breaks for layout purposes. That looks great—but the dominant “2nd paradigm” we’re in (cf. meiert.com/en/blog/two-paradigms/) suggests it’s now worse #CSS-wise. (I look forward to the CSS data.)
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@HTTPArchive The top elements (fig. 7) suggest “maybe not,” maybe there *isn’t* any more #HTML knowledge going around. Only 11 elements on >90% of pages? And
b
is in the Top 10? (i
would have made more sense, semantically and typographically!) With HTML’s 112 elements, this is bad news.