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tomd
tomd
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Posted by tomd
tomd
16,701 Points

Apparently HTML tags such as <main> are API's? Im pretty sure they're not.

I just bought a magazine called and inside they have a section called '30 Best HTML, CSS and JS API's', they then proceed to name: dialog, details, summary, main, aside, nav, header, footer, ect as API's. How are they API's?

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Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points
Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points

Huh... I certainly wouldn't consider them APIs at all since they're semantic markup tags released with HTML5 and not even close to the fully-realized communication protocols that usually get that name. I suppose if you wanted to be really generous with the API definition, you could consider them "tools" for building more complex web applications. However, what I think is more likely is that the author of that piece didn't understand the typical use of API in the context of web development.

tomd
tomd
16,701 Points
tomd
tomd
16,701 Points

Yeah I thought it was a little strange they called HTML tags API's.... Thanks for your response.