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Semantic HTML emphasizes meaning over presentation by using semantic markup tags. It allows software agents to automatically crawl web pages and extract meaningful information without prior knowledge of the structure or content. For semantic HTML to be effective, semantic structures need to be widely applied so search engines and other agents can properly interpret the meaning of published text. The use of semantic markup also improves accessibility for users of assistive technologies like screen readers.

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Semantic HTML

Semantic HTML emphasizes meaning over presentation by using semantic markup tags. It allows software agents to automatically crawl web pages and extract meaningful information without prior knowledge of the structure or content. For semantic HTML to be effective, semantic structures need to be widely applied so search engines and other agents can properly interpret the meaning of published text. The use of semantic markup also improves accessibility for users of assistive technologies like screen readers.

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Semantic HTML

Main article: Semantic HTML


Semantic HTML is a way of writing HTML that emphasizes the meaning of the encoded
information over its presentation (look). HTML has included semantic markup from its inception,
[83]
 but has also included presentational markup, such as  <font> ,  <i>  and  <center>  tags.
There are also the semantically neutral span and div tags. Since the late 1990s, when Cascading
Style Sheets were beginning to work in most browsers, web authors have been encouraged to
avoid the use of presentational HTML markup with a view to the separation of presentation and
content.[84]
In a 2001 discussion of the Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee and others gave examples of ways
in which intelligent software "agents" may one day automatically crawl the web and find, filter and
correlate previously unrelated, published facts for the benefit of human users. [85] Such agents are
not commonplace even now, but some of the ideas of Web 2.0, mashups and price comparison
websites may be coming close. The main difference between these web application hybrids and
Berners-Lee's semantic agents lies in the fact that the current aggregation and hybridization of
information is usually designed in by web developers, who already know the web locations and
the API semantics of the specific data they wish to mash, compare and combine.
An important type of web agent that does crawl and read web pages automatically, without prior
knowledge of what it might find, is the web crawler or search-engine spider. These software
agents are dependent on the semantic clarity of web pages they find as they use various
techniques and algorithms to read and index millions of web pages a day and provide web users
with search facilities without which the World Wide Web's usefulness would be greatly reduced.
In order for search-engine spiders to be able to rate the significance of pieces of text they find in
HTML documents, and also for those creating mashups and other hybrids as well as for more
automated agents as they are developed, the semantic structures that exist in HTML need to be
widely and uniformly applied to bring out the meaning of published text. [86]
Presentational markup tags are deprecated in current HTML and XHTML recommendations. The
majority of presentational features from previous versions of HTML are no longer allowed as they
lead to poorer accessibility, higher cost of site maintenance, and larger document sizes. [87]
Good semantic HTML also improves the accessibility of web documents (see also Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines). For example, when a screen reader or audio browser can correctly
ascertain the structure of a document, it will not waste the visually impaired user's time by
reading out repeated or irrelevant information when it has been marked up correctly.

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