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Wait asking Codex to change something on the third item in the list is hard when you have tr tags? I feel like tables are the quintessential way of listing rows
by soheil 5y ago
Wait asking Codex to change something on the third item in the list is hard when you have tr tags? I feel like tables are the quintessential way of listing rows of items in HTML, what am I missing?
- mediumdeviation 5y agoA list is usually represented by an ol in HTML, not a table. HN uses three trs for each item, not one. The table cells are also not consistent, because it's not actually a tabular data, so each cell could have nothing (used as a spacer for layout), or more than one thing squeezed inside. The intermingling of semantic and non-semantic (presentational) elements makes "understanding" the page difficult, which incidentally also makes the page less accessible since screen-readers also rely on the same mechanisms to relay information to non-sighted users.