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I haven't used links, but does it get the comment indentation properly?

• mindcrime 5y ago
  I tried just now and it seems the answer is "no" on comment indentation. I don't see any indentation at all, everything is a flat list, left justified. Edit: tried with elinks as well, same (more or less) thing. :-(
  • divbzero 5y ago
    Same with lynx which is a bummer. I was half expecting HN’s <table> layout to work everywhere.
    • divbzero 5y ago
      Looks like HN actually uses JavaScript to indent, based on a <td indent="n"> attribute where n is the level of indentation. So it’s more a progressive enhancement than something built into the underlying HTML. (Edit: I think my initial take above was wrong. Please see below.)
      • dragonwriter 5y ago
        > Looks like HN actually uses JavaScript to indent I’m not an anti-JS person, but why? CSS seems so much more sensible for that.
        • divbzero 5y ago
          I want to correct my initial take above. The JavaScript code I was looking at actually appears to show/hide children in threads. The indentation appears to be handled separately by invisible GIFs: <td class="ind" indent="0"> <img src="s.gif" height="1" width="0"> </td> <td class="ind" indent="1"> <img src="s.gif" height="1" width="40"> </td> <td class="ind" indent="2"> <img src="s.gif" height="1" width="80"> </td>