Yesterday Divya Manian wrote a post on Smashing Magazine called ”Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value”. It made some hyperbolic statements about semantic markup. However it, and its comments, are well worth a read. The best reply I’ve seen so far comes from Jeremy Keith.

 And that’s the reason why right now is exactly the time for web developers to be thinking about semantics. The specification is still being put together and our collective voice matters. If we want to have well-considered semantic elements in the language, we need to take the time to consider the effects of every new element that could potentially be used to structure our content.