Hacker News Reader

I'd like to agree with you, but I don't think HTML5 is going to change anything unless they get rid of the HTML part.

I don't every want to layout my UI by saying "div div div div div div div". I want to say "window menubar toolbar grid treeview datagrid statusbar" and then I want it to show me the native representation of those things.

View on HN

Yeah, that's why the spec started to introduce semantic tags (http://www.pageresource.com/html5/semantic-tags/). I'm not arguing that we are anywhere close to what you want, I'm just saying that the web is evolving in that direction.

I guess we'll have to wait and see. It is going to be interesting to see where we are in 10 more years.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com