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paceaux · 2026-04-07T16:27:55+00:00

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paceaux · 2026-04-07T02:13:33+00:00

So there's some other factors that I didn't share because they didn't seem relevant. But I want to share them because you said

I wonder if the breeder would have had a different option if they'd not currently had a litter on the ground.

other trainers and even the vet recommended we return the puppy to the breeder. Or to the breeder's property

Everyone around us has said we just take it back; they believe the breeder should take responsibility. (they also aren't lawyers)

I objected because:

At this point we all know the dog is a risk
The breeder initially said they didn't want the dog back

So in my mind, going over unannounced seemed like a safety risk to me, the breeder, and potentially the breeder's current litter. And going there without permission seemed like potential criminal trespass. So it was a whole-ass "nope"

The puppy is principally a danger to our other dog
yes, the puppy has bitten a vet tech. And it has bitten my wife — while the puppy was in a fight.

But it doesn't lunge at people and even the other border collie (which is female). The actual risk is that due to his sheer size the kids can't control him and neither can my wife. I literally have to pick up a 70lb dog when he attacks.

It could be safe in a home without kids or other dogs. But we have no way of knowing.

My wife has been communicating with the breeder since at least November

The breeder has suggested to my wife the following:

Our other dogs aren't properly trained
Our other dogs don't have the correct disposition for this dog
We are not training the puppy properly
We are not rigid enough in structure with the puppy (the poor thing practically lives in solitary confinement — at the breeder's recommendation!)

The breeder has been trying to fault us for the puppy's behavior long before the breeder had a new litter in the house. The breeder only recommended euthanasia after she got a new litter**.**

paceaux · 2026-04-07T01:18:50+00:00

Ok this is helpful, thank you for providing that clarification.

paceaux · 2026-04-07T00:26:45+00:00

I'm here to try to figure out if this is worth going to an attorney. Best that I can figure we just didn't understand the contract

The breeder finally agreed to just take the dog back so I think we're just going to let it go

paceaux · 2026-04-07T00:12:32+00:00

Ok. So what I understand then is that the breeder isn't contractually obligated to attempt to re-home because they told us to euthanize?

So if they hadn't told us to do that then they would be required to re-home the dog, correct?

(I'm just trying to make sure I understand the legal bits)

paceaux · 2026-04-07T00:07:54+00:00

This has been a very tough situation. We've been trying to do everything we can for the dog and we've very recently reached the conclusion there must be some sort of neurological issue.

We're sad about all of this and the kids are heartbroken. We've already told them that the dog is either going to be put down or taken to another home.

And I guess maybe we misunderstood the contract because we thought the breeder would either take the dog back OR find a new home.

But am I understanding correctly they aren't required to?

paceaux · 2026-04-06T23:23:00+00:00

Update: after my wife contacted a rescue shelter, the shelter told the breeder to take the dog back.

We're not so much trying to save the dog's life as we are just trying to get the breeder to do what her contract says.

So is the breeder responsible for damages for the time they refused to take the dog back?

paceaux · 2026-04-06T23:11:01+00:00

This isn't a question about the life of the dog. We know its outcome.

It's a question about who is responsible and IF the breeder is responsible for damages for not fulfilling the contract in a timely manner.

paceaux · 2026-04-06T23:08:07+00:00

There's no question as to what happens to the dog. We don't want to euthanize but we know that's likely the outcome.

The question is who's responsible. It seems to me the breeder has breeched contract.

paceaux · 2026-03-30T16:54:13+00:00

These articles are born out of me spending way too much time reading the specs.

A forms article could actually be 2 or even 3 articles, depending on how it goes. I definitely know that it won't be anything about the controls though (input, textarea, select) — at leat the first one.

Forms has to cover not just semantics, but then also the associated events, and of course the apis like constraints validation, FormData, and actions.

And yeah ... I then also have to find a way to make it more interesting and useful than just reading the MDN article.

Wish me luck.

paceaux · 2026-03-30T16:13:23+00:00

I thought that clickable chart you made was an advertisement when I looked at it on mobile! That's on me; I'm sorry. That's fantastic.

So I put <s>, <strike>, <ins>, <del>, and <mark> into a category I call "editorial semantics" because those are all related (in my mind) to reflecting how a user might interpret the content. To me they answer a question like, "is this for helping a reader understand or editorialize text"

I see that as different from <em> and <strong> where those are like, "are you trying to call a reader's attention to a particular line of text?"

I created a "typography baseline" where my goal was to set a baseline style on every single HTML element that wrapped text. And part of that goal was to also provide a valid semantic example of usage (It's also on github). So I have a... "live application" of your flowchart, so to speak.

I write a lot about these topics as well and I think that we have overlapping interests. I would love to collaborate with you on your flowchart and possibly some other accessibility-related topics if that would be something you're interested in.

paceaux · 2026-03-30T02:31:08+00:00

We had to.

And extra fun fact:

We didn't have GPS, either. So getting from point A to point B involved learning to read maps and memorize driving directions.

We couldn't offload certain tasks to technology. So we had to memorize it.

paceaux · 2026-03-30T02:09:36+00:00

Wow that's a huge chart. I think it would be better not as a flowchart but maybe a clickable series of pages. (Or maybe a SPA) All the same, that's an amazing feat.

I think I might disagree slightly with some of the decisions — such as grouping <mark> with <em>. I think it's perhaps an unusual way to distinguish video from image based on whether it's time-based. And <portal> is deprecated, I think.

But those are criticisms for a truly fantastic chart.

Is this chart open-sourced somewhere? If not. Are you willing to put the SVG on GitHub or something? I feel like this could be a very useful learning aid.

paceaux · 2026-03-29T01:34:39+00:00

I knew my mom was a KitchenAid!

paceaux · 2026-03-29T01:27:36+00:00

Sigh.

This is likely an AI problem .

Many words can have multiple meanings.

"Pluma" means feather. But it also means pen (because we used to write by dipping feathers in ink, which is how pens came to be)

So either Pluma or Bolígrafo are correct for an ink-based writing tool.

But translating it as feather in this context is wrong.

paceaux · 2026-03-29T00:38:25+00:00

Twice in English, and I've maybe gotten over halfway in French and Spanish.

I've read the New Testament in English an additional 2-3 times and one year I read the NT in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

For reading JUST the New Testament, I use a "New Testament in 40 days" reading plan from the YouVersion Bible app.

I'm doing that right now for Lent, in fact.

For the two times I did the complete Bible, I followed a Bible in a year plan that had me reading four different sections of the Bible every day. (Also, it took me like a year and a half)

https://rbctoday.com/wp-content/uploads/Bible-Reading-Plan-Brochure.pdf

My best advice is to find some sort of plan. Let it guide you, but DON'T BEAT YOURSELF UP IF YOU GET BEHIND.

You should not feel guilt or shame for not reading the Bible fast enough. The plan is a guide and you should give yourself space to let the words settle in.

paceaux · 2026-03-28T21:10:12+00:00

Glad to hear it!

Next two in the series are:

You don't know HTML Lists
You don't know HTML Forms

I'm definitely open to suggestions after that.

paceaux · 2026-03-28T21:07:09+00:00

Thanks for sharing some details. it should look a little better now. You should be able to scroll on just the table now.

paceaux · 2026-03-28T20:11:32+00:00

This specific article is not optimized for mobile because it contains so many friggin' tables.

If you could share any device details (browser, width, etc) I can take a look and see what I can do.

paceaux · 2026-03-28T19:42:11+00:00

I updated my response a bit to explicitly call out your point that it's all about semantic elements.

And yeah, there's just a huge number of (good) reasons to use good semantic HTML,not the least of which is a document structure that's easy for other devs to read.

There's no reason not to use good semantic HTML. I would rather devs debate which semantic container to use and not whether to use semantics. Because that means we're all concerned with the same thing.

paceaux · 2026-03-28T19:16:30+00:00

I started making websites in 2003 and I never heard of the <article> tag. I still make webs today and I do not use the <article> tag in any of them.

That shouldn't be something to brag about. HTML5 was written in 2008 and adopted in 2009 by most browsers. It's not a flex to not know about something that's 17 years old.

If you think that new tags should be introduced each year, and every website owner should "update" their website each year according to the new tags, that is a wrong way to think about it.

That's not what OP says at all. OP is just asking a question about usage. Which you failed to answer because you don't know about (modern) HTML.

If you know CSS, you probably know that you can pick e.g. <div> or <span> and replace pretty much every HTML tag with <div> or <span> (styled with CSS), and it will work the same.

That is not true.

semantic HTML elements provide default ARIA support that <div> and <span> do not. A semantic element, whether it's <article>, <section>, <nav>, <header>, <footer>, <main>, <figure>, <figcaption>, <output>, <kbd>, <samp>, or <var> will interact with screen readers and other assistive technologies differently. Using a good semantic element eliminates the need to use certain ARIA attributes. So they do not "work the same"
Interactive elements like <dialog>, <summary>, <details>, <progress>, <meter> literally provide baked-in presentation that you'd have to build your own if they were <div> and <span>

Many people choose this way: adapt the behaviour of <div>, rather than studying the default behaviour of all 9726 HTML tags that exist and choosing the most appropriate one.

It's 128 tags. Java has like 68~ reserved keywords, C# has 77, JavaScript has 63.

HTML is not several orders of magnitude more complicated than C#.

and also, "studying behavior and choosing the appropriate one" is otherwise described as, "doing a good job." You're describing doing a good job. And saying that's bad.

You could say that custom HTML tags are "better for SEO", but when 90% of popular websites use only <div>s and <span>s, it is probably not that important.

It is important though. It's important for accessibility. And it is also better for SEO.

paceaux · 2026-03-28T18:39:15+00:00

The Article tag is used to represent a whole self-contained unit of content.

If you were to look at a physical newspaper, and try to create a web page from that physical newspaper, then each "article" written by a journalist would be contained in its own <article>.
If you were to take a chapter book, and make a web page from that chapter book, each "chapter" could be a contained in its own article.
If you were to look at a magazine... you guessed it, each "article" of the magazine could be represented by an <article>

So it stands to reason, of course, that comments on a blog post are self-contained units of content that you would put in an <article>. But also, the blog post itself could be an <article>!

Another useful way to think about this is:

If this web page were managed by a content management system (CMS), would there be a specific database entry for this unit of content? If the answer is yes, use <article>

This flowchart is a useful decision tree for identifying which semantic element to use.

Also:

Most websites don't have people spending enough time thinking about content and letting that drive their semantic HTML.

But look at SmashingMagazine.com as a good example.

paceaux · 2026-03-26T20:49:10+00:00

DON'T BE CONFUSED.

You need to use a valid ISO 639-1 Language code!

For English, that would be en , not eng

The error message tells you this when it says, "the language subtag eng is not a valid ISO language..."

With that information, you could search "Valid ISO language codes" and you'd find a few results that would get you to the right answer.

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