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Jul 24, 2018

One of the most valuable design lessons that HTML taught me is the concept of semantics—describing what something *is* before attempting to describe what it looks like. Turns out that properly defining the semantics of your design language is fundamental to design at scale.

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Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

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@markdalgleish

Yeah, I found it very odd moving to 'everything-is-a-div' development! I liked my semantic elements! How does this work in the context of single-page apps and design systems? Do you treat components as a sort of a domain-specific design language to complement HTML?

12:38 PM · Jul 24, 2018Twitter Web Client

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Yep, exactly.

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Sam

@canihearawahoo

Jul 26, 2018

Good CSS classes are mostly for developers, as CSS would still work the same way with random strings as classnames. HTML though, on other hand, would cease to be semantic if we replace all semantic elements with <div>s. These two things aren’t interchangeable.