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singpolyma3yesterday at 6:55 PM1 replyview on HN

Those three are not the same thing though. They might render the same visually with the most popular visual user agents, but that's about it


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kennywinkeryesterday at 8:07 PM

Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck… but is semantically different, except for when most people interact with them.

My point wasn’t that they are identically - my point is that 99% of the time they achieve the same effect. Or they would be if I had swapped the <p> tag for a <span> tag.