If the purpose of your site is to show content to a human, then anything on the page that isn't the content the human wants to see is bells and whistles. I will die on this hill.
> If the purpose of your site is to show content to a human, then anything on the page that isn't the content the human wants to see is bells and whistles.
Sure, but a) the purpose is rarely just to show content, one of the great strengths of the web is interactivity. b) often a lot of what's in the HTML (and especially the CSS) isn't the content the human wants to see.
Sure, but a) the purpose is rarely just to show content, one of the great strengths of the web is interactivity. b) often a lot of what's in the HTML (and especially the CSS) isn't the content the human wants to see.