This is obviously to code purists -- which I am. IMHO, it's way better to know what you're doing. They certainly aren't causing any harm, but we all have seen things like:
<span class="title">Article title</span>
And the guy who did it says it's the same as using an <h1>, since the font size attribute is the same. If they don't understand the value of a semantic code, they will just see that the site is showing up more or less the same in the browsers and that's good for them.
I felt the same way. It's hard enough to remember the subtleties of CSS and which order the table tags go in. The header tag makes my head hurt(no pun intended).
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Mistakes? Hmm... Bad style, maybe, but hardly mistakes. They certainly aren't causing any harm.
<span class="title">Article title</span>
And the guy who did it says it's the same as using an <h1>, since the font size attribute is the same. If they don't understand the value of a semantic code, they will just see that the site is showing up more or less the same in the browsers and that's good for them.
It's too easy to get it wrong and the subtleties are, well, too subtle.
It's never going to work.