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How To Make Loveliness: an HTML treasure hunt

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Shows how using picture element for WebP-first responsive images, label wrapping input for checkbox hit targets, and schema.org microdata (article/itemprop) yields concrete wins: Eventbrite reports 100% organic traffic lift, Jobrapido 115% and 270% new registrations in Google case studies; WebAIM finds 98% of top million homepages have accessibility issues; BuzzFeed logs 13 million JS timeouts (1% of JS requests); median mobile site sends 385 KB of JavaScript. Demonstrates less JavaScript, built-in browser behaviors, and simple semantic HTML that improves performance, accessibility, and future-proofing.

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 2:21Treasure!
  3. 3:52The treasure map
  4. 5:40Introduction
  5. 11:37HTML is declarative
  6. 12:01HTML is fault-tolerant
  7. 13:05Paving a cowpath
  8. 14:24HTML is interoperable.
  9. 15:26JavaScript is NOT declarative
  10. 18:32Wooooh code
  11. 22:14Screen reader users
  12. 25:30Structured data
  13. 31:16Sir Uncle Timbo
  14. 31:29What can you do?
  15. 33:45react-bootstrap
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