[ryan_f]

I was a little surprised to see so much dedicated to HAML in an HTML/CSS tutorial. The author's background is as an instructor at the starter league which is heavy on Rails. HAML is widely used in that community so his perspective might be slightly bias.

But it is still useful to know and see there are other ways to handle to write HTML.

And that is because it is more than "markup should be beautiful". I cringe when that is stated as the only reason. Markup that is simplified can lead to easier readability and fewer mistakes. It removes the worry if you forgot to close a tag and removes them all together.

I was hesitant at first after being so used to working with HTML but I am happy as ever after making the switch. I find my time is more productive and updating the html is much quicker.