According to the post, they got rid of a lot of spans and tables. Sure, they probably could've done that while staying within HTML4/XHTML, but when you're changing things around already, why not stick to the most recent standard?
They're using JavaScript onmouseover to show spoilers which can be accomplished in straight CSS2. I assume that's for IE compatibility. They're also still using <br/> tags in post comments, but I assume that's because it's easier to write a nl2br converter than to intelligently parse comments with more than two newlines into semantically-correct paragraphs.
I would have thought 4chan's thread format perfect to use the new <article>, <header>, and <footer> tags.
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According to the post, they got rid of a lot of spans and tables. Sure, they probably could've done that while staying within HTML4/XHTML, but when you're changing things around already, why not stick to the most recent standard?
They're using JavaScript onmouseover to show spoilers which can be accomplished in straight CSS2. I assume that's for IE compatibility. They're also still using <br/> tags in post comments, but I assume that's because it's easier to write a nl2br converter than to intelligently parse comments with more than two newlines into semantically-correct paragraphs.
I would have thought 4chan's thread format perfect to use the new <article>, <header>, and <footer> tags.
Considering that we're talking about 4chan, this might count as heavy abuse of the "article" tag…