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dotancohen • today at 3:48 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

As a user, I don't care.

As a disabled user with a screen reader, I might care.

As a developer tasked with maintaining it after the original dev left, I most certainly would care a great deal.

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raincole • today at 4:32 AM

As a developer you maintain the source templates, not the compiled/generated HTML. The HTML is messy doesn't mean the source templates are so.

Semantic web is basically "please think of the crawlers."

xmprt • today at 4:29 AM

Except that as a developer you have access to the original source code where things are well structured. It only turns into div soup after the React/Vue code gets compiled down to HTML+CSS+JS that can run on any browser.