On: Write HTML Right

[SkeuomorphicBee]

First and foremost, the author advocates for organising documents in a much flatter DOM tree. In this style all major page elements sit at the same hierarchical level, so there is no "mess of nested elements", the is no need for visual indication of hierarchy if there is no hierarchy to begin with.

I think that is a very compelling format for a text-first web page, like a blog post or news article. Of course it is a coding style not well suited for complex web apps with deep hierarchy.

[niconii → SkeuomorphicBee]

One interesting detail is that a lack of deep nesting was in fact a deliberate design goal for HTML originally, to make WYSIWYG editing more feasible.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/HTMLConstraints.htm...