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While that's true, they haven't been commonly used for cases like indenting child comments since the '90s. You'd usually either indent with a table-based grid o
by chc 6y ago
While that's true, they haven't been commonly used for cases like indenting child comments since the '90s. You'd usually either indent with a table-based grid of some sort or (increasingly common as you got past the '90s) with margin/padding properties. The way Hacker News does it where every comment is a table with a spacer gif in the first column was never a standard practice AFAIK.
- stefan_ 6y agoTables were the design element de jure, so much so you could export your UI design straight to generated table HTML.
- cmiller1 6y agoI still remember how to lay out pages with tables. Just another in the long list of programming techs filling my brain that will never get used again like Hypertalk and Actionscript