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Yet somehow it just works. Why waste your time on idiomatic CSS when good old tables work just fine?

• evincarofautumn 14y 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 14y 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 14y ago
      Hey. Don’t ruin my broad oversimplifications by adding reasonable context.
      • mkramlich 14y ago
        sorry :)
• charliesome 14y ago
  Because tables are a pain in the ass and CSS is not
  • tedsuo 14y ago
    Haha I remember when it was the other way around...
    • chris_wot 14y ago
      Tables have always been a pain in the arse.