[paultannenbaum]

While I agree with the general idea behind the article (object orient your css), I think the second demonstration involving margins is an example of OOCSS gone wrong.

If you are injecting your markup elements with classes like "mbm mts mrl" (or padding, or anything else that is essentially just a css property), this is not much different than just inlining your styles. If you want this level of reusability in your css, use sass and create these as placeholders. From there give your dom element a some kind of class(es) that can extend several of these placeholder values.

Ian Storm had a very well written article that hits on this more: http://ianstormtaylor.com/oocss-plus-sass-is-the-best-way-to...