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== separating 'content' from presentation ==
== separating 'content' from presentation ==
* HtML was designed for <mark>semantic markup</mark> (not stylistic: <i> got replaced by <em>)
* HtML was designed for <mark>semantic markup</mark> (not stylistic: <code><i><code> got replaced by <em>)
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Revision as of 16:26, 19 January 2025

Femke Snelting, Constant Verlag, 2008
against the differentiation between content and presentation in the creation of websites

  • Webstandards as evolving set of agreements on how digital information should be structured and organized into compatible units
    • separate Webs code in HTML for content and CSS for form
  • this working premise of W3C states that separating content from presentation facilitates exchange of information (of 'true information' or 'meaning')


  • lack of standardization: early on browsers where not compatible, each fighting over their market share, inventing their own mark up
    • resulted in problems for designers, content providers and users (impossible to predict what user will see on their screen)
  • Call for standardization Acid test introduced competing for compliancy rather than difference between browsers

avoiding tagsoup


  • a standardized web is an accessible web (allows for interpretation of web through multiple devices including screen readers)

separating 'content' from presentation

  • HtML was designed for semantic markup (not stylistic: got replaced by )