Modern web development increasingly prioritizes components and utility classes, reducing HTML to a mere byproduct. This shift negatively impacts performance, accessibility, and how both machines and people interpret content. Semantic HTML is crucial; it helps machines understand meaning and intent. Tags such as <article>, <nav>, and <section> provide clarity to search engines and accessibility tools. Meaningless markup complicates rendering, maintenance, and scalability, leading to confusion and ambiguity in content structure. Using proper semantic tags enhances quality and intent recognition in web applications.
HTML isn't just how we place elements on a page. It's a language - with a vocabulary that expresses meaning. Tags like <article>, <nav> and <section> aren't decorative. They express intent.
When they can take advantage of it, semantic HTML can give them clarity. And in a web full of structurally ambiguous pages, that clarity can be a competitive edge.
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