Published in Web Development on Monday, March 15th, 2004
Some great conversations going on over at Alex King's website and spun off to Anne van Kesteren's blog about Alex's post, The Myth of CSS.
Alex basically points out how true separation of style from content is not acheived in a lot of websites, as extranoues div's and span's are often used simply as style hooks. There are some significant points raised in the comments that follow on both sites.
In the end this is sort of a semantic argument about semantics and markup, but something worth being aware of if we really want to have an accurate understanding of the tools that we use, how to properly use them and where they can be improved in the future.
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