Semantics?

WTF?

I blinked and four months passed me by. Where have I been? Under mountains of tin foil lying on the floor of my front room cookin’ up some mean sets, chillin’ and surfin’ at sounds like techno, and hangin’ with Randwick chicks.

Since I was last here even a foil head like myself has noticed that disassociated validates strict 1.1 - and John’s probably somewhere far far away, from those morons at the local bakery, writing a book about the feat.

While I’m at it, John is also (somewhere) dodging eviction notices from his pathetically ineffective property manager. Geez Ms Property Manager, you’re way scarier than any of us ever could be, and yet you can’t frighten off a baker who wears shorts all year round? How on earth do you ever manage to collect all those “arrears”?

For the record, my best work is still done with a microwave oven.

But I’m not here to take pot shots at socially inept bakers who date the chicks they hire, only to be dumped by the same chicks days later, or property managers who can’t find the reply button on their email proggy. Nah, I while I was checkin’ out disassociated’s links page, I tranced upon Simplebits.

Now someone tell me if these guys are geeks with nothin’ better to do, or what. Simplebits runs these quizzes, which as far as this tin foiled chemically overloaded DJ wanna be can tell, in actual reality (a sketchy concept that; reality) only split hairs when it comes to using correct (X)HTML.

Ar, sorry, SEMANTICALLY correct (X)HTML I mean.

For those who came in late, or know nothin’ about it, basically websites are coded to rulez. For years most people couldn’t give a monkey’s about rulez, but that’s all changed now.

See, if you don’t use the correct semantics, then basically you’re buggered mate. This is o8 (elite, l33t) like I’ve never seen it before. Chris’s sake the (X)HTML validates, uses CSS, but now we sit around debating the semantics of it.

In layman’s terms it means most likely that while disassociated may be strict 1.1, it is most likely semantically wrong. Now we’re arguing about i tags over em tags. Aren’t we taking this shite just a little too seriously now guys?

Upshot is, as the esteemed Mr Zeldman says, the word “semantic” may get bandied about more than is good for it. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Geez, who am to speak about semantics anyhoo, I don’t know jack about standards to begin with. I stage a strategic retreat to the tin foil. Did y’all know that DJ Jazzy Jeff is in Oz right now?