pLAIN oLD sEMANTIC html
June 1, 2007
So, after a few years of stoically learning and adhering to web-standards and semantics in HTML web page construction, we now have a name to make us as POSH as other web movements. POSH (plain old semantic HTML) has been coined partly as a comical poke in the eye of the myriad of acronyms around the world of web technologies, but also to give this often over-looked aspect of web design an easily identifiable label which in turn gives a certain credibility in acronym-land. Read more here and here After reading the last few threads of the html5 specification mail-shots, and witnessing a serious discussion about why table tags should be allowed inside p tags (I read in disbelief!), I think more than ever good clean semantic mark-up needs promoting and a silly acronym might just be the way forward. Full POSH explanation here

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