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Surely HN must now be next? The cobbler's children have gone unshod so long!

• TazeTSchnitzel 15y ago
  Dear God, HN has neither a doctype nor a tableless layout... D:
  • Devilboy 15y ago
    Yet somehow it just works. Why waste your time on idiomatic CSS when good old tables work just fine?
    • evincarofautumn 15y ago
      Accessibility, bandwidth savings, maintainability, semantic markup, visual consistency, support for more complex layouts, and removing the need for ugly hacks—remember spacer gifs?
      • mkramlich 15y ago
        Except... the site works fine like it is. And it's not a mass consumer site. It's mostly for techies/geeks. And it's not PG's core business. YC is. Believe me, I have at least a few upgrades I wish were made here (fixing that "the link does not exist" bug, and making commenting/editing more friendly like Reddit), but they are not a big deal, we'll survive.
        • evincarofautumn 15y ago
          Hey. Don’t ruin my broad oversimplifications by adding reasonable context.
          • mkramlich 15y ago
            sorry :)
    • charliesome 15y ago
      Because tables are a pain in the ass and CSS is not
      • tedsuo 15y ago
        Haha I remember when it was the other way around...
        • chris_wot 15y ago
          Tables have always been a pain in the arse.
• coderdude 15y ago
  Every time a community I'm part of goes and redesigns their site it sucks hard. Really hard. Please Paul, do not listen to the designgeneers on here. This place is just fine the way it is!
  • moe 15y ago
    Case in point: Slashdot.
  • JonnieCache 15y ago
    >This place is just fine the way it is! Can we at least compromise on unicode vote arrows?