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Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 4:50 PM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #10

The first example claims that "ui three column grid" is semantic. Not in my book.

Actually, I think we've all misunderstood this: it's "Semantic". Nowhere does it actually claim it's 'semantic' :-)

Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by derefr » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

donpark wrote: post #3

I wouldn't call writing "ui large red labeled icon button" in HTML semantic anything. I'd called it confusing orgy of style and content.

I don't see any content; those are all stylistic properties.

Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

rob_mccann wrote: post #5

Why does it do away with using for buttons?

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Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by languagehacker » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 5:03 PM UTC

This is actually pretty regressive given the examples. This is the reverse of the attitude that brought us the tag. I disagree that stuff like this should be in classes, so definitely not for me.

Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by acoleman616 » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 5:05 PM UTC

This is semantic:

Title Home Link Link

not this:

Title Home Link Link Signed in as user

Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by nnash » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 5:10 PM UTC

donpark wrote: post #3

I wouldn't call writing "ui large red labeled icon button" in HTML semantic anything. I'd called it confusing orgy of style and content.

Yeah that one was too specific for my liking I don't think you should use colors names like 'red' as a class. What if you decide you don't want it to be red?

Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 5:22 PM UTC

What I'd really like is a UI toolkit for developers that goes

Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by sriharis » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 5:23 PM UTC

I don't what about this is semantic except the class names. But even that comes with a heavy loss in maintainability. If I have to customize say, the border radius of an icon button, I'd have to override this specificity: `.ui.vertical.labeled.icon.buttons .button:first-child > .icon` Not cool.

Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by flyosity » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 5:26 PM UTC

In their examples, none of their buttons were actually buttons. Nor were they even links. They were all DIVs. This is pretty terrible HTML, for many reasons, especially for accessibility.

Re: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

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Post by Scriptor » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 5:34 PM UTC

flyosity wrote: post #19

In their examples, none of their buttons were actually buttons. Nor were they even links. They were all DIVs. This is pretty terrible HTML, for many reasons, especially for accessibility.

It's also the exact opposite of semantic HTML as I understand it.