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Call me old fashion, but whatever happened to grok, learn, read, write, and eventually knowing how to do what you want? I'm not trying to say that CSS frameworks have no potential or aren't interesting, in fact I'm not going to say anything at all; instead, I'm speculating that probably 2/3 of the people downloading and using them are doing it wrong since they see these _frameworks_ as an answer to not knowing how to do what they want.

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I"ve studied CSS for years and find CSS frameworks useful, particularly in that I don't need to recall all the cross-browser quirks. Currently, I use Blueprint with Compass driving the generation. This gives me a lot of flexibility and more readable code than if I were wrangling directly with CSS for all of it.

Yeah for cross-browser handling it's very nice but like any abstraction it's nice to know how it works for those times you have to get down and fix some leaking problem.

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