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Display data semantically

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Display data semantically

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- The concept of semantics has a rough history on the Web. When the Web was first moving into the commercial space in the mid 1990s, CSS was so new that it was unavailable in the browser. Therefor, styling was very much a part of HTML. Webpage layouts were pretty much limited to two methodologies. We could layout webpages using frames an old methodology since deprecated by the W3C. This led to unsightly scroll bars all over webpages, so it wasn't necessarily the best looking approach. Or, there was a second approach, which heavily influenced the web world for the next 10 years or so. In his book, "Creating Killer Websites", published in 1996, David Siegel advocated avoiding the use of most standard HTML tags and using tables for layout. Combined with spacer GIFs and nesting tables many layers deep, this methodology became our first method for layout on the Web. It was so popular you'll still see websites that use it today. Unfortunately, there are huge problems with using tables for…

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