Short question: Does anyone know about any performance issues using semantic vs class-based css?
I ask, because in the early days of css we also tried to use semantic style and had strange rendering issues on huge data tables and everytime, when the page had a lot of content. After trying a few things we came to the conclusion, that (especially but not only) IE had huge performance issues with semantic style. After switching to classes, everything worked fine. It technically made no sense, but since we did not change anything else, we came to the conclusion, that class based is faster than semantic...
I ask, because in the early days of css we also tried to use semantic style and had strange rendering issues on huge data tables and everytime, when the page had a lot of content. After trying a few things we came to the conclusion, that (especially but not only) IE had huge performance issues with semantic style. After switching to classes, everything worked fine. It technically made no sense, but since we did not change anything else, we came to the conclusion, that class based is faster than semantic...
Did anyone ever measure this for modern browsers?