A Node and Command Line Tool to Find Obsolete HTML

Published on August 12, 2024, filed under Development (RSS feed for all categories).

Ever wondered if and where you have obsolete HTML in your code base, whether center or spacer elements, or align or border attributes?

As there don’t seem to be many (any?) tools for that beyond HTML validators, I built a little Node.js helper to find obsolete and proprietary HTML—ObsoHTML, the Obsolete HTML Checker (source).

The package and repository pages have all the documentation.

As this started out as an AI experiment (more soon!) and as I’m more of an HTML person, I may have missed something (maybe even “duh”-like). Contributions of any kind are welcome (as well as forking and remixing and what-not).

Keep your HTML clean! 🧹

About Me

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a frontend engineering leader and tech author/publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead for companies like Google and as an engineering manager for companies like Miro, I’m somewhat close to W3C and WHATWG, and I write and review books for O’Reilly and Frontend Dogma.

I love trying things, not only in web development (and engineering management), but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my views and experiences.

If you’d like to do me a favor, interpret charitably (I speak three languages, and they do collide), yet be critical and give feedback, so that I can make improvements. Thank you!