> In summary: classless HTML might work well on small, mostly trivial sites, but long term, it’s not scalable or modular > > To wit: browsing the article's sou

> In summary: classless HTML might work well on small, mostly trivial sites, but long term, it’s not scalable or modular > > To wit: browsing the article's source code and searching for "class=" yields 1158 results I wasn't suggesting the author was responsible for Smashing Magazine's source; I was demonstrating that sufficiently complex websites have good cause for using classes. Styling all of that markup without those classes would be an absolute nightmare.