I think the point is that if you are using floats in too many places you there are probably a whole host of other problems with your CSS. If you took the time t

I think the point is that if you are using floats in too many places you there are probably a whole host of other problems with your CSS. If you took the time to go over your CSS, and find where you are duplicating effort you might be able to reduce the number of CSS classes you are using by finding a common pattern. Thus abstracting your CSS.