[Isofarro]

"Ultimately, though, the "separation of concerns" was a good principle to use when the web was a bunch of documents meant to provide content. It isn't that way anymore. The web has evolved in use to include web apps and other forms of media, so our principles must evolve as well."

The "webapps are not documents" position is hokum. Web apps are merely the application of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create more functional/dynamic documents. But documents they still are.

"Also, anyone who advocates using a selector like "ul.members li a" and then complains about the maintainability issues of using non-semantic classes when an update needs to be made should really reconsider their hypocrisy."

That's a nice strawman you've propped up there.

"If you're concerned about the discoverability of the code to a new developer, DOCUMENT IT. Do not create crappy selectors. Create a UI style guide that implements all of the major UI components and have the developer reference the style guide."

Amen.

[nilliams]

> That's a nice strawman you've propped up there.

In his defence, that's not a "strawman he's propped up", it's taken from the article.