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HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag
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I disagree with this but its not what we're talking about. You said
outputis useless and I'm saying its obviously not. There's zero cost to using it instead of a div so the only reason not to use it is to purposefully screw users who need accessibility features.Maybe for
labelbutpandh1-h6only differ fromdivin styles, which is another argument in my favor. If you're willing to swap adivfor one of those for visual users, swapping adivforoutputshould be just as easy of a change.No I said it's not very useful.
No, the main reason is because people don't know about it, because it's an extra thing to remember for little benefit. Same reason other semantic-only tags like
articleget very little use.Err yeah the "only" do a really useful thing that lots of people want.
If
outputcame with some nice styling and maybe animations... maybe a built in copy-to-clipboard option... then people would have used it.But you know about it now and you're still arguing against it.
The benefit you see in those tags is the same level of benefit that users who use accessibility features get from
outputand other semantic tags. But your argument seems to boil down to "I dont need accessibility features so i don't care about enabling them for ppl who do". That's very disappointing and continuing this debate seems pointless so i'm gonna stop here