Geoff Pack wrote:
Are the pipe separators really un-semantic? They have a long history of being used in navigation menus, and definitely have meaning.
Asterisks have a long history of being used to denote required form fields...but that doesn't make them semantic either. Just like the pipe separators, it's a case of a *visual* convention from the print world. They do not have meaning on their own, but their meaning has been inferred. The same inference happens when we used to use <font size="+3"> instead of a proper <h1> or whatever to denote a heading...
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