Comments on: Sick of Semantics http://huddledmasses.org/sick-of-semantics/ You can do more than breathe for free... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:36:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Beautifully Letdown » Acronyms, Abbreviations, and other Semantics http://huddledmasses.org/sick-of-semantics/comment-page-1/#comment-10290 Beautifully Letdown » Acronyms, Abbreviations, and other Semantics Wed, 18 May 2005 14:11:42 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2004/10/27/sick-of-semantics/#comment-10290 [...] e with plugins that accomplish this is that they are too effective. Joel Bennett writes an article about his plugin that replaces acronyms and abbreviations with appropriate an [...] [...] e with plugins that accomplish this is that they are too effective. Joel Bennett writes an article about his plugin that replaces acronyms and abbreviations with appropriate an [...]

]]> By: no2 http://huddledmasses.org/sick-of-semantics/comment-page-1/#comment-3052 no2 Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:44:36 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2004/10/27/sick-of-semantics/#comment-3052 <strong>Pedantic Semantic 2: </strong> This is a technical article on the use of the HTML tags <abbr> and <acronym;>. If you have any interest in this, but not much idea what these tags are for, I suggest you try reading the W3C's Recommendation (which is really the HTML speci... Pedantic Semantic 2:

This is a technical article on the use of the HTML tags <abbr> and <acronym;>. If you have any interest in this, but not much idea what these tags are for, I suggest you try reading the W3C’s Recommendation (which is really the HTML speci…

]]> By: Seth Thomas Rasmussen http://huddledmasses.org/sick-of-semantics/comment-page-1/#comment-1563 Seth Thomas Rasmussen Wed, 08 Dec 2004 01:07:27 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2004/10/27/sick-of-semantics/#comment-1563 Roger clearly knows his stuff. Semantics are meaningless! (Oh, the irony!) Roger clearly knows his stuff. Semantics are meaningless! (Oh, the irony!)

]]> By: Roger http://huddledmasses.org/sick-of-semantics/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Roger Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:41:56 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2004/10/27/sick-of-semantics/#comment-820 Semantic markup is silly. I see the same terms commonly defined and that by logical extension is foolish. If you don't know what RSS means, for instance, having it explained to you as Really Simply Syndiation means *nothing*. If you already have an RSS reader, meaning you actually care about RSS, the you don't need it explained. And what's all the hoopla about defining something like HTML? Nobody who's reading a site cares what HTML means if they don't already know it. Letters to the Editor of a newspaper aren't burdened by the writers lack of knowledge about pics and points and ems and ens etc.... The only way semantics would be useful is to define really uncommon words. And so far, nobody does that. There's just too much work involved. Semantic markup is silly. I see the same terms commonly defined and that by logical extension is foolish. If you don’t know what RSS means, for instance, having it explained to you as Really Simply Syndiation means nothing. If you already have an RSS reader, meaning you actually care about RSS, the you don’t need it explained.

And what’s all the hoopla about defining something like HTML? Nobody who’s reading a site cares what HTML means if they don’t already know it. Letters to the Editor of a newspaper aren’t burdened by the writers lack of knowledge about pics and points and ems and ens etc….

The only way semantics would be useful is to define really uncommon words. And so far, nobody does that. There’s just too much work involved.

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