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Ah the good* old days of table layouts! Had a whole book about how to achieve all kinds of page layouts using tables pre the CSS3 days. *: Not actually good.
by jabbany 4y ago
Ah the good* old days of table layouts! Had a whole book about how to achieve all kinds of page layouts using tables pre the CSS3 days.
*: Not actually good.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoHN is a table layout.
- quickthrower2 4y agoIt does. What I like about HN is they are very conservative about making changes. They have done some work in the past to make it more mobile friendly, but clearly they kept the table layout. The upside to this is the familiarity - which is something I love. I am not keen on redesigns unless the original design was really really bad. If I am even using your thing, it isn't that bad! Too many companies redesign their sites, for almost no advantage to the user. This also applies to all software. For example look at Windows. Horrendous multiple levels of dialog style and behavior of various vintages. This leads to very hard discoverability in Win11. Ubuntu is so much nicer and hasn't changed much over the years from what I can tell. The "old frowned upon thing" + "familiarity" can trump "keeping up with so called best practice" + "great I have to relearn this thing I was familiar with".