Compass is a real stylesheet framework — not just a collection of classes. With Compass, you still use the best of breed css frameworks; adapted to make them easier to configure and apply to your semantic markup.
Taxonomy of Markup · I use a taxonomy of markup which I'm pretty sure was first advanced in the seminal November 1987 CACM article Markup systems and the future of scholarly text processing, by Coombs, Renear, and DeRose, which was the first place I ever
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