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1. Brian Kardell Bluesky 14 min later

   I love the esoteric tags, but also wonder if they are worth the time it took to get them all since they kind of don't actually "do" much

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      1. cookie Bluesky 1 hr later

         Me pulling a chair over with a box of popcorns ready to listen to a semantic web debate

         1. Brian Kardell Bluesky 1 hr later

            Ok, here's my take. The web browser has always allowed attributes and tags it doesn't understand. There are several mechanisms for adding different kinds of meaning. All of them are stylable. We can't know if people will use it/correctly until they do. We can just..

            bkardell.com/blog/Droppin...

      2. Brian Kardell Bluesky 1 hr later
   2. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 39 min later

      how dare you, they work very hard

2. Miska Knapek Bluesky 1 hr later

   Fetching!

3. Brian Poblete Bluesky 8 hr later

   I think the <kbd> tag is pretty neat! Especially if you implement nested <kbd> styles similar to how Kevin does it in this video.

   youtube.com/shorts/WBgI0...

4. Lari Mastodon 1 day later

   @zachleat You missed wrapper kbds. This is great, would sort of need it, but how are people supposed to author that:

   https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/kbd#representing_onscreen_input_options

5. Script Raccoon Bluesky 1 day later

   "esoteric"? I don't know if that term fits. It's a normal element. A bit underused, that's it.

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 day later

      I don’t agree but ok!