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Re:Classes? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Classes (CSS) by lowboy on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @05:54PM (#4134366)
This is unfair - the author of the article has no control over SmashingMagazine's markup/CSS.
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Re:Classes? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Classes (CSS) by stinky613 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @06:49PM (#4134600)
> In summary: classless HTML might work well on small, mostly trivial sites, but long term, it’s not scalable or modular

> > To wit: browsing the article's source code and searching for "class=" yields 1158 results

I wasn't suggesting the author was responsible for Smashing Magazine's source; I was demonstrating that sufficiently complex websites have good cause for using classes. Styling all of that markup without those classes would be an absolute nightmare.

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