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Ask HN: Why HN website still uses center tag and tables?
Is it a better approach? <center> tag was deprecated with HTML5 and tables don't seem to be recommended.
By the other hand HN is probably the fastest website I visit..
- jsegura 11y agoProbably they just don't care about styling but they care on the content.
- davewiner 11y agoProbably because of the principle: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_it_ain%27t_broke,_don%27t_fix_it https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_it_ain%27t_broke,_don%27t_... This site is perfectly readable in all browsers and it's really hard to imagine the day when the browsers stop understanding <center> and <table>, so it's probably good for perpetuity.