Back in the day you used to be able to view source on a web page to see the markup used to create it. These days, on many sites, a large portion of the markup is not visible when you view source because it is inserted by JavaScript functions.

That isn't necessarily a problem provided that you use progressive enhancement and unobtrusive JavaScript. If you follow those principles, content and basic functionality will still be there when scripting is unavailable. Many of us understand that. But one thing I've noticed is that some developers forget to consider semantics or accessibility in the markup they use JavaScript to insert.

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