Ask HN: What tags would you add to HTML?

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We're building Scroll, a superset of HTML (all HTML can be used normally in scroll).

I'm curious if there are any tags you've wished for years were in HTML but haven't made it yet?

Our current list of tags (which we call Parsers), is here: https://scroll.pub/leetsheet.html

We already have enough in my eyes. The top 18 either already exist or have nothing to do with hypertext markup language.

- -- we already have ol, ul and li

--- -- that is an hr

?,! -- Why? this is part of sentences

[], [x] -- this can be done with very little work in html standardized by the w3c, but no semantic meaning

,*, ** -- this already looks like an headache to parse, but we already have html tags that do this better like p

// --

#, ##, ###, ####, ##### -- you literally cite h1-h5

> -- we have literally the q element

This looks more like an mix of markdown, an programminglanguage and html

A client-side include tag: <include src="nav.html" />

It would work similar to a server-side include (e.g. ) but on the client, so that it can be downloaded once and cached, then used across a site.

You can get something similar with web components, or iframe/embed/object, but it really should be part of HTML.

I'm not sure I can think of any that aren't extremely application specific.

Perhaps a full editable embedded calendar? Maybe marquee and blink?

Maybe a card and toolbar element? Or fake glowing LED indicators?

To create web pages, I have enough HTML4 and CSS2 even more than. The contents are more important than design, and good design is as little design as possible.

So that I can block all ads with ease.

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