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Re: Multiple H1 tags in an HTML5 web page

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Mar 10, 2014 4:17PM

Well said, Bevi!

> It was a shame that the originators of HTML and the WWW didn't look use the
> hundreds of years of publishing as their model for Internet information.

Ha! You mean, all that prehistoric print-era thinking! What did they know… :-)

> They went about an created a new wheel. To me, they invented a dysfunctional
> half-assed wheel rather than taking the existing, functional wheel and
> making it better.

From the perspective of the creators of the web nothing "existed" at all. They had to write software, and they wanted it to do something useful as soon as possible. Supporting all that stuff that printers and publishers were doing would have meant turning HTML into SGML… and HTML was invented more-or-less to get away from SGML!

> We have a very long way to go before we can begin to provide equal access to
> information for disabled users. This discussion about tags is just the tip
> of the iceberg!

That is for sure. :-(

Duff.