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HN is pretty snappy and lightweight, but there's still quite a bit of HTML bloat that could be removed. e.g. all the nested tables, divs, classnames and padding
by perilunar 7y ago
HN is pretty snappy and lightweight, but there's still quite a bit of HTML bloat that could be removed. e.g. all the nested tables, divs, classnames and padding gifs are completely unnecessary, and could be replaced by a single nested list.
- tripzilch 7y agoIf I'm interpreting this whole discussion properly, it seems that the fact that "modern web development" is bloated as hell, means that the messy table-based layout on HN is a-okay, because you really can't expect people to learn from history more than a single step back, or something. Yes indeed, the shit that web developers were trying to get rid of around 2005-ish, is actually better than we have today on many pages. Who are all these programmers that like bloat so much??