The intention of CSS grid frameworks certainly was at one time limited to rapid prototyping, but I'm seeing more and more sites deployed with default grid class

The intention of CSS grid frameworks certainly was at one time limited to rapid prototyping, but I'm seeing more and more sites deployed with default grid classes and CSS intact. Using divs with classes of row, column, span_X, grid_x, et al. is, from a semantic standpoint, no better than using tables. And Bootstrap's CSS file is nearly 2500 lines, unminified with a 47K minified file size. That's a lot of overhead if you only need grid, typography and pretty forms. It makes a lot of sense to keep the full CSS file linked while iterating the design/layout, but once it's in production, the grid classes can be replaced with semantic names and the extraneous styles removed. Here's an article I found on the 960gs homepage that covers not only combining/renaming classes, but also minimizing the amount of extraneous container divs: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/03/fight-div-itis-and-class-itis-with-the-960-grid-system/ http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/03/fight-div-itis-and-c...