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<address> doesn't mean what you think it means:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-ADDRESS

"The ADDRESS element may be used by authors to supply contact information for a document or a major part of a document such as a form. This element often appears at the beginning or end of a document."



Fair enough, but what does that add?

We should use the tag so that some yet-to-be-invented web spider might be able to automatically extract contact info for the pages it crawls?


<address> is what people should have been using all along - I remember it was common in academic websites in the early-mid 90s, but it fell out of fashion. Similarly <em> for emphasis, the semantic meaning was lost when people switched to <b> and <i> instead.




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