Since the inception of the web, HTML has been one of the cornerstones of web development, but how well do we know and understand it? Each element not only has default styles provided by the browser, but also semantic meaning which helps us with code structure, maintainability, SEO and, Accessibility. We regularly use divs, spans, buttons, paragraph tags and many more, but what about the ones that aren’t so common like <time> or <abbr>? In this talk we will go over some lesser known HTML elements that can help us create better content for our users.
<div>ersify your HTML
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Martine Dowden
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Focusing on web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, accessible, and usable, Martine approaches User Experience from both Art and Science, drawing from her degrees in Psychology and Visual Communications. She is a Web Technologies, Firebase, and Angular GDE as well as a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. Martine stays active in the industry by writing articles, leading workshops, and speaking at conferences and meetups worldwide. An accomplished author, her latest book, Tiny CSS Projects was released in 2023.