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Semantic html is overrated in my opinion. As if every web page or application could semantically fit the header, article, footer, summary, section, nav, menu paradigm. I'm not against it, but probably, we will have another set of semantic tags in 5 years, and 10 years later yet another set of semantic tags.

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> As if every web page or application could semantically fit the header, article, footer, summary, section, nav, menu paradigm

I know, that's the whole thing I'm talking about. A page is full of the div inside the header that centers the header. Then the header has three horizontal bars, two of which are split into right and left side, each of these are full of multiple kinds of items...

These are all <div>'s, and are supposed to be, and they usually make up the majority of elements on any reasonably complex page.

With that logic, HTML is feature complete and no longer requires anymore upgrades, as we can just use <div>s to our hearts' content.

Semantic HTML makes the web a better, more consistently understandable, place.

Not every, but 95% do. For the rest, there are other pssibilities and tools to make sense of it (microdata, ARIA attributes, etc). Just ignoring semantics altogether won't do any better.

Exactly this. And for the 5% that doesn't work, that's what <div>s are for!

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