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The HTML Treasure Hunt: from JavaScripter to Front End Superhero in 29 Minutes

How much do you know about HTML’s semantics? A co-editor of the HTML spec will take you on a magical treasure hunt around HTML.

Bruce Lawson at International JavaScript Conference 2019

You know your Lookbehind Assertions, your fat arrows and asynchronous iteration. But if your code is assembling HTML to get delivered to a user’s browser, how much do you know about HTML’s semantics? Choosing the correct HTML element rather than vomiting a "div" or belching out a "span" can greatly enhance the end users’ experience, with no fragile extra code to write and maintain. One of the co-editors of the HTML5.3 spec will take you on a magical treasure hunt around HTML, showing you marvelous gifts and hidden wonders that will also help future-proof your code, and turn you into a time-travelling Frontend Superhero, adored by millions*. (* actual number not guaranteed. But your users will be happy.)