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by blaze33 3715 days ago
From what I recall css class names should be semantic because they're in the html code and should relate to the content and not to its current presentation. So class="col-xs-4" is unsemantic.

Just searched for "semantic name" and found this article from 2011 that explain the subject quite well: https://css-tricks.com/semantic-class-names/
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ThomPete 3715 days ago
Couldn't that be changed in the Bootstrap source code easily?
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bdavisx 3715 days ago
No, because they (the bootstrap people) can't know what your semantics are for the particular piece of HTML you are marking up. You might want to use 4 columns for a certain type of information in one place (Employee Data) and 4 columns for a different type of information in another place (Sales Figures) - the implementation of both is 4 columns, but the semantics would be "Employee Data" or "Sales Figures".
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