It is not a question of preference. /base and /base/ have different semantics. In many cases, the difference is unimportant. But it is important when there are relative URLs. child relative to /base/ is /base/child. child relative to /base is (perhaps surprisingly) /child.
(2022) Use Server Side Rendering if possible, and generate URLs with Pushstate Google can and will run JavaScript now so it is very possible to build a site using only JavaScript provided you create a sensible URL structure. However, pagespeed has become a progressively more important ranking factor and typically pages built clientside perform poorly … Read more
Most of the roles you see were defined as part of ARIA 1.0, and then later incorporated into HTML via supporting specs like HTML-AAM. Some of the new HTML5 elements (dialog, main, etc.) are even based on the original ARIA roles. http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ While the First Rule of Aria states: If you can use a native … Read more