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by jameswyse 5071 days ago
"I was certain, and I'm still certain hand-coding will go the way of the Dodo."

I don't think so. How are you going to handle responsive designs or hell even fluid designs? Or deciding which HTML tag to use? HTML tags are meant to be semantic.

More and more people are moving away from designing in photoshop to designing straight in the browser.

edit: I see the link in the OP uses bootstrap and is well put together, but it's still far from perfect.
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brianfryer 5071 days ago
> HTML tags are meant to be semantic.

I totally agree with this and gave my own detailed explanation of the difference between semantic and non-semantic HTML here --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4284054

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sopooneo 5071 days ago
I used to hear that a lot. Then everyone went nuts for bootstrap.css, which is very decisively not semantic. Now I don't know what to believe.
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brianfryer 5066 days ago
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the heavy usage of Bootstrap that's been going on lately.

Bootstrap not only makes it simple to visualize the construction of a page, but their documentation is really easy to understand (while HTML's documentation can be difficult to go through).

It's great how flexible HTML/CSS is -- it comes pre-built with an existing paradigm (semantic HTML), and tools to create your own (read: <div>s & classes/IDs). Personally, I prefer using the standards already set than creating something new and/or using something different.

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