Semantic markup means a lot of different things to different people. It depends on how much a jerk the person you're talking to is, and what they actually work

Semantic markup means a lot of different things to different people. It depends on how much a jerk the person you're talking to is, and what they actually work on. There are people who say you should NEVER, EVER, for anyreason, have classes or IDs in your html, it's not semantic, and everytime you type class="" god kills a kitten. These people build brochure-ware sites. Static documents (though they're probably wordpress templates for a site that will never have content updates) that at max have 5 pages, and have 0 interaction done in js. These people are jerks. Their homepages also tend to be #999 colored text on a #777 background.