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		etler on Feb 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The complete guide to centering a div Semantic HTML isn't about formatting HTML as a data format. That's not what HTML is. It's about formatting HTML as a sane to read document. It makes it more accessible, more understandable, and easier to develop when the structure makes sense and isn't full of hacks.

coldtea on Feb 3, 2014 [–]

That's also wrong. HTML is not the document to read.

HTML is a MARKUP format. The document you're meant to read is it's rendered output in the browswer.

In fact the original TBL's HTML vision included tools to work on the HTML, not manually editing/reading the code.

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