"Am I the only one that doesn't understand everyone's obsession with CSS grids"

I saw a great talk by Nicole Sullivan on CSS last week. She said that many sites lack a meaningful high-level abstraction for their visual layout, and end up with a tangled mess of float, padding & margin declarations on every element. This complexity, she said, is more clearly and concisely handled at a higher, site-wide level and suggested using a grid.

I've wasted an insane amount of time pushing one element four pixels this way and another element three pixels that way, so I'm definitely eager to try a grid on my next project.

Links to her slides (with some other great info) and her grid framework:

http://www.slideshare.net/stubbornella/our-best-practices-ar... https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/blob/master/core/grid/...